PHRASES
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
~ a chonaic mé trí mo néalta, a vision I saw in my slumbers.
Chonaic mé an ~ sa dorchadas, I saw a figure in the dark.
Chonaic mé an fear romham, I saw (to my surprise) a man in front of me.
Ní fhaca mé é leis na ~ta, I haven’t seen him in ages.
~ Phádraig in Ard Mhacha, St. Patrick’s successor in (the see of) Armagh.
Ná feicidís thú sa chruth sin, don’t let them see you in that condition.
Mura i n~ is nach bhfeicfinn arís é, in case I shouldn’t see him again.
Ar an ~ ina bhfaca mé é, in the condition in which I saw him.
Ní h~ liom é, I don’t see any benefit in (taking) it.
Grá ~e, [’love in absence’, love of person one has not seen.
An bhfeiceann tú an deifir atá air! See what a hurry he is in!
Go bhfionna cách do dhúthracht, so that all may see whether you are in earnest.
Rud a fheiceáil i bh~, to see something in a vision.
Tabhair ~ isteach chugainn ar do bhealach, drop in to see us on your way.
agus, is) Nuair a tháinig sé isteach is go bhfaca sé cé a bhí ann, d’imigh sé leis, when he came in and saw who was there, he went away.
Síleann siad gur as a cheann atá an ghrian ag fás, they see in him the glory of the sun, think the world of him.
Féach an ~ atá aige, see how he is being maltreated; look at the sorry state he is in.
Tá siad le feiceáil sa spéir, they may be seen in the sky.
~ mé faoin tsúil aige é, I let him see it plainly; I let him have it right in the eye.
I gcás ~ bhfeicfinn iad, in case I wouldn’t see them.
Tá sé ~ againn anois, we see nothing strange in it now; we take it for granted now.
Chonaic mé ar ~ é, I saw him in action.
~ a fháil ar rud, to see sth. in advance.
Chonaic mé an t~ sa bhinn, I saw a ghostly figure in the rock.
Do ~ a fheiceáil i scáthán, to see one’s reflection in a mirror.
Nach dtabharfá ~ isteach chugainn? Could you not drop in to see us?
Tá ~e cait aige, he has eyes like a cat, can see in the dark.
Ní fhaca mé an ~ seo le fada iad, I haven’t seen them in these parts for a long time.
Féach mar atá an t-olc ag teacht tríd, see how the evil is breaking out in him.
Níor chuir mé aon ~ ann, I didn’t consider it in any way unlucky, didn’t see any harm in it.
Chonaic sé an ~ sa dorchadas, he saw a form in the dark.