Time
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Time periods
Mionúint - minute
Uair a'chloig - hour
Inné - yesterday
Inniuf - today
Amárach - tomorrow
Lá - day Laethantaí - days
Leath an lae - half the day
Seachtain - week
an tseachtain seo caití - last week
an tseachtain seo chugainn - next week
Coicís – fortnight
Mí - month
Bliain - year Bliantaí - years
Anuraidh - last year
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Morning
Maidin - morning
Maidin amárach - tomorrow morning
Sách moch - early enough
Meán lae - middle of the day
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Night
Tráthnónaí - evening
Oíche – night Oícheantaí - nights
San oich' - in the night
i rith na hoíche - during the night
Deireadh oich' - the end of the night
is go mbeadh sé a'dhul mall san oíche - it was getting late into the night
deár an lae - end of the day
Anocht – tonight
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Specific periods of time
Anois – now
Go mall - late
Roimhe sin - before that
Bacadh – interruption
Faoi cheann tamaill - after a while
Ní bheadh ann ach tamall - it would only last a while
ins na bliantaí deireanacha - in later years
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Indefinable periods of time
Aois - age
Scaithimh - a while
ó am go ham - from time to time
Síoradh - eternal
go deo na ndeor - forever and ever
Deireadh - end
i bhfad - a long time
Fadó - long ago
go ceann tamaill eile - for another while
Beagán moill - a bit of a delay
Éiríonn sé rian - it gets delayed
Corruair fánach - on very rare occasions
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Describing age
óg - young
Sean - old
Measartha aosta - fairly old
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Wasting time
a'marú an ama - killing time
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Memories
Is cuimhne liom - I remember
Tá spallaíocht agam - I recall
Sa tseanam - in the old days
An tseansaol - the old days
Ón tseanaimsir - from the old days
an uair sin - in those times
Chuir sin rud eicínt eile i gcuimhne liom - that reminded me of something else
a'cuimhneamh siar ar rud eicínt - thinking back on something
Chuir sé i gcuimhne dom - it reminded me
Mo chuimhne - I remember