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age
how old someone or something is
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aois FEMININE NOUN
SYNONYM: céad
Foirmeacha gramadaí
Grammatical forms
Iontrálacha gaolmhara
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níl sé ach dhá bhliain d’aois
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thosaigh sí ag dul ar scoil nuair a bhí sí seacht mbliana d’aois
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she started going to school when she was seven years of age
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cuireadh beirt fhear fiche bliain d’aois i bpríosún
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two men twenty years of age were taken to prison
Samplaí gaolmhara
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tá sé chóir a bheith trí bliana d'aois
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he is almost tree years old
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páistí faoi bhun deich mbliana d'aois
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children under the age of ten
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liostáil sé san arm nuair a bhí sé 18 bliain d'aois
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he enlisted in the army when he was 18 years of age
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rinneadh rí de nuair a shroich sé 18 mbliana d'aois
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he was made king when he reached 18 years of age
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tá sí tuairim is tríocha bliain d'aois
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she is approximately thirty years old
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chuala sí an scéal óna máthair a bhí seasca bliain d'aois um an dtaca sin
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she had heard the story from her mother who was seventy at that time
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fuair muid blaiseadh den saol mar a bhí san ochtú haois déag
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we got a taste of life as it was in the eighteenth century
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Ní san fhichiú haois a mhaireann muid a thuilleadh!
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We do not live in the the twentieth century any more!
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Cén aois iad? Diarmuid Ó Sé, Joseph Shiels: Teach Yourself Irish, Teach Yourself Books, 1998
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Tá Pól sé bliana d'aois agus tá dhá bhliain ag Nuala. Diarmuid Ó Sé, Joseph Shiels: Teach Yourself Irish, Teach Yourself Books, 1998
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Pól is six years old and Nuala has two years.
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Leanaí faoi bhun deich mbliana d'aois. Diarmuid Ó Sé, Joseph Shiels: Teach Yourself Irish, Teach Yourself Books, 1998
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Children under ten years of age.
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Cén aois thú, a Sheáin? Colloquial Irish: The Complete Course for Beginners, Routledge, 2008
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Tá mé ocht mbliana d'aois. Colloquial Irish: The Complete Course for Beginners, Routledge, 2008
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Cén aois thú? Colloquial Irish: The Complete Course for Beginners, Routledge, 2008
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Naoi mbliana d'aois. Colloquial Irish: The Complete Course for Beginners, Routledge, 2008
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Tá mé sé bliana déag d'aois. Colloquial Irish: The Complete Course for Beginners, Routledge, 2008
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Tá sé dhá bhliain d'aois. Colloquial Irish: The Complete Course for Beginners, Routledge, 2008
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Cén aois atá tú? Éamonn Ó Dónaill: Turas Teanga, RTÉ/Gill & Macmillan, 2004
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Agus cén aois atá siad? 'Gaeilge gan Stró!', Beginners Level, ranganna.com
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Tá mac amháin agam, Stiofán, tá sé cúig bliana d'aois. 'Gaeilge gan Stró!', Beginners Level, ranganna.com
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I have one son, Stiofán, he's five years old.
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Cén aois atá sé? 'Gaeilge gan Stró!', Beginners Level, ranganna.com
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Cén aois atá sí? 'Gaeilge gan Stró!', Beginners Level, ranganna.com
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Cén aois atá siad? 'Gaeilge gan Stró!', Beginners Level, ranganna.com
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Bhí páiste dhá bhliain d'aois acu. 'Beo!', beo.ie
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They had a two-year old child.
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Nuair a bhí sé 11 bliain d'aois, bhog an teaghlach go léir go dtí an Fhrainc. 'Beo!', beo.ie
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When he was 11 years of age, the whole family moved to France.
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Faoi dheireadh an 17ú haois bhí deireadh le húinéireacht sclábhaithe san Eoraip. 'Beo!', beo.ie
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By the end of the 17th century slave ownership was ended in Europe.
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Ach eisean ag cur bádaí beaga ar snámh, san aois a bhfuil sé ann! Séamus Ó Grianna: Caisleáin Óir, eag. Niall Ó Dónaill, Cló Mercier, 1976
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But him playing with little boats, at his age!
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San aois a bhfuil tú ann... Séamus Ó Grianna: Caisleáin Óir, eag. Niall Ó Dónaill, Cló Mercier, 1976
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Cuireadh beirt fhear fiche bliain d'aois i bpríosún.
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Two men twenty years of age were taken to prison.
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Níl sé ach dhá bhliain d'aois.
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He is only two years old.
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Thosaigh sí ag dul ar scoil nuair a bhí sí seacht mbliana d'aois.
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She started going to school when she was seven years of age.
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Tá mé fiche bliain d'aois.
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I am twenty years of age.
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Tá sé sé bliana d'aois. Diarmuid Ó Sé, Joseph Shiels: Teach Yourself Irish, Teach Yourself Books, 1998
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Páistí atá in aois fágála scoile.
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Children of school-leaving age.
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Aois an pháiste, le do thoil?