ABAIRTÍ
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
Níl ~ ach a bheith ag iarraidh céille oraibh, you cannot be expected to have sense.
Níor chuimhníomar go dtiocfá, we hadn’t expected you to come.
An fear ar mhó ~ daoine as, the man from whom people expected most.
An rud is ~ do dhuine a dhéanamh, what is natural for one to do, what one may be expected to do.
Nuair nach raibh ~ linn, when we were not expected.
Náire san áit nár fhás sí! Shame where it grew not (is not to be expected).
Is leor dó a fheabhas, he is doing as well as can be expected.
Ní fhéadfaí a bheith ag súil leis, it couldn’t be expected.
Seo ~ an rud a raibh mé ag súil leis, this is the very thing I expected.
Táthar ag ~eamh lena bhás, his death is expected.
~ a bhí ann, it was more than could normally be expected, it was exceptional.
Ní raibh súil lena mhalairt agam, it was just as I expected.
Amhail ba mheanmarc dóibh, as they had expected.
Tá sé ~ agam mo shaol a chaitheamh leis, I can hardly be expected to spend all my life at it.
Ní raibh ~ agam leis, I hardly expected it.
Tá ~ abhaile leis, he is expected home.
Ní raibh aon ~ agam (go), I never expected (that).
~ orthu é! It was only to be expected of them.