PHRASES
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
Ní stadann sé ~ ag ithe, he never stops eating.
Níor shéid aon lá as an ~ ba mheasa ná é, there never was a stormier day.
Ní raibh mé i m’~ riamh go dtí anois, never before was I in such a fix.
Níor cailleadh riamh le h~ é, he was never mean.
Níor ~ mé a leithéid riamh, I never heard the like of it.
Ní fheicfidh tú aon ~ go deo orthu, you will never see them again.
Níor tharraing sé (aon) ~ slán ó loiteadh é, he never recovered his health from the time he got hurt.
~ nó riamh, nó choíche, now or never.
Choíche ~, forever, never, again.
Go brách, go deo, ~, never again.
Níor dhóigh sé siúd an ~ riamh, that fellow ‘never burned the old milking-place’, never made an unwise move.
An té nár bhain is nár chaill, he who neither won nor lost, who never ventured anything.
Is ~ a shíl mé go n-imeofá mar sin, I never thought you would go off like that.
Ní raibh mé riamh an ~ sin, sna bealaí sin, I never went in that direction, was never in those parts.
As go ~ leis, off he went (as though he would never turn back).
Go ~ (nó) go, ever, never, until.
Is fearr go mall, go deireanach, ná go ~, better late than never.
Is faide go ~ ná go Bealtaine, never is a long word.
Tá an domhan ~ le rá aige, he never stops talking.
Níl a fhios ag aon duine cá luíonn an bhróg ar an duine eile, one never knows what someone else’s troubles may be.
Rug sin ~ ar a bhfaca mé riamh, I have never seen the like of that.
Ní raibh mé ~te riamh go dtí anois, I was never in such a sorry plight.
Ní dhearna sé ~ maitheasa ó loiteadh é, he never recovered fully from his injury.
Ní fhaca mé ar bhuille mo dhá shúl riamh do leithéid, I never laid eyes on anyone else like you.
Is beag ~ a bhí riamh aige, he never had much means.
Ní raibh mé riamh ina chaidreamh, I was never intimate with him; I was never on speaking terms with him.
Nuair a thagann an chaill tagann an fhaill, misfortunes never come singly.
Nár chaille Dia ort! May God never fail you! More power to you!
Ní tharlódh sé i g~ na gréine, it would never happen.
Ní raibh aon cheapadh aige go mbeinn anseo, it never occurred to him that I might be here.
Níor loic sé riamh ~ orm, he has never failed me before.
Ní thiocfaidh sé ~, he will never come.
~ arís, ever, never, again.
Bíonn sí ina ~ go headra, she never tidies herself in the morning.
Ní chuireann an chinniúint a cosa fúithi, fate never rests.
Níor chleacht mé riamh é, I never made a habit of it.
Níor chuir sé scríob chleite chugam, he never wrote me a line.
Gan ~ lae ná oíche a dhéanamh (go), never to rest or sleep (until).
Níor chuir sé ~ crua dá chnámha riamh, he never exerted his bones, never did a hard day’s work.
Ní raibh mé riamh an ~ sin, I never went that way.
Níl ~ ar bith sna páistí sin, those children are in no way backward, never feel shyness.
Ní chreidfeá choíche é, one would never believe it.
Níor chroith sé cos, crúb, ní ba mhó, he never moved after that, he was quite dead.
Níor chroith sé ~ (ina dhiaidh sin), he never moved (after that); that finished him.
Níor chruthaigh Dia a leithéid, God never made another like him.
Is minic a bhí ~ mall sona, ‘a lagging hound was often lucky’, better late than never.
Níor chuideachtaigh mé riamh iad, I never associated much with them.
Ní raibh lá dá chuimhne agam, it never occurred to me; I had no intention of it.