ABAIRTÍ
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
Tá ~ air, he is diffident, shy.
Ní bhíonn fear náireach ~, [’a diffident man does not get many perquisites’, if you will not ask you will not get.
Ba ~ liom labhairt leis, I was diffident about speaking to him.
~ ar chaint, diffident in speaking.
Níl siad faoi shotal dá chéile, they are not diffident about answering each other back.
Ní raibh ~ air é a rá, he was in no way diffident about saying it.