PHRASES
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
Tá siad níos fearr ná a cheapfá díobh, they are better than you might imagine.
~ air sin, (i) bear that in mind, (ii) just imagine!
Ní raibh ann ach rud a chonacthas dom, it was just that I imagined it.
Is iomaí rud a fheictear do dhuine, we are all inclined to imagine things.
Ag ~ atá tú, you are imagining things.
~ a thabhairt do rud, to imagine what sth. is like; to find a simile for sth.
Rud a shamhlú, to imagine sth.
Bhí sé ag samhlú dó féin go n-éireodh leis, he was imagining that he would succeed.
Táthar á shamhlú duit, you are just imagining it.
Ní shamhlófá go brách an chuma a bhí air, you could never imagine what he looked like.
Is iomaí rud a shamhlaítear do dhuine, we imagine all sorts of things.
~ atá ansin aige, that is something he imagined.
Ar do shúile atá sé, you only imagine it.