PHRASES
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
In ~ na mblianta, well advanced in years.
Bhí mé ag feirmeoir anuraidh, I was working for a farmer last year.
Dá mbeadh bliain eile agam, if I had another year.
Breis ~ bliain, more than a year.
Na blianta gan ~, the forgotten years.
Bliain airgeadais, financial year.
Ag áireamh na mblianta, counting the years.
Cad é an ~ de bhlianta a chaith sé ann? How many years exactly did he spend there?
Tráthanna ~ den bhliain, (at) certain times of the year.
Is ann a d’fhág sé a chuid allais, he worked the best years of his life there.
An t-~ seo den bhliain, (at) this time of year.
Ó dheich mbliana ~, from ten years onwards.
~ sa lá, sa bhliain, late in the day, in the year.
~ is isteach le bliain, a year approximately.
Sula raibh an bhliain ~, before the year was out.
Tá an talamh sin ~ le trí bliana, that land has been in lea for three years.
~ agus istigh ar bhliain, about a year.
Mo chuid d’~ na bliana, my share of trouble for the year.
Tháinig sé ~ go maith le bliain, he has come on well during the past year.
~ go ceann bliana, for a year from now.
Le bliain ~, for the past year.
Síol na bliana ~, last year’s seed.
Ó ~ anois; ó bhí ~ ann, since last year.
Tá sé bliain d’~, he is a year old.
Trí bliana ar chéad, one hundred and three years.
Tá orlach, bliain, agat orm, you are an inch taller, a year older, than I am.
Faoin am seo ~, by this time next year.
Tá an lá, an bhliain, ag ársú, it is getting on in the day, the year.
~ anuraidh, the year before last.
Tháinig ~ mór ort le bliain, you have greatly altered in the past year.
~ ar mhíle, ar bhliain, over a mile, a year.
Corradh ~ le bliain, a little over a year.
Le blianta ~a anuas, during the past few years.
Is ~ má tá sé bliain d’aois, he is barely a year old.
Níor bheannaigh sé anseo le bliain, he has not been here for the past year.
Tá an seanduine ag breith (na haimsire) leis go maith, the old man is wearing (his years) well.
Go mbeirimid beo ar an am seo arís, may we live to see this time next year.
Bheith bliain d’aois, troigh ar airde, slat ar fad, tonna meáchain, punt an chloch, to be a year old, a foot high, a yard long, a ton weight, a pound a stone.
Bliain bhisigh, leap year.
An Bhliain Nua, Úr, the New Year.
~ an Tiarna, (in) the year of our Lord.
An bhliain seo caite, a chuaigh thart, last year.
Leanbh ~ óg, child of tender years.
Tá sé ina bhog-sheanduine, he is getting on in years, beginning to look old.
I m~ na bliana, an tsamhraidh, during the longest days of the year, of the summer.