Pota Focal Intergaelic
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cuircín cuireadh cúirt cúirtéis cúirtéiseach cúirteoir cuirtín cúis cúisín cuisle cuisneoir cúiteamh cúl cúlaigh culaith cúlbhinse cúlbhinseoir cúlbhrat cúlchaint cúlra cúlráideach
cúis
FEMININE NOUN
cause
reason why something is the way it is
cúis le [rud]
the cause of [something]
cad is cúis leis?
what is the cause of it?
what causes it?
easpa airgid ba chúis le deireadh an tionscadail
lack of money caused the end of the project
cúis
FEMININE NOUN
cause
something worth struggling for
ar son na cúise
for the sake of cause
for the causecuisle
FEMININE NOUN
Foirmeacha gramadaí
Grammatical forms
cúis
FEMININE NOUN
GENITIVE SINGULAR
cúise
NOMINATVE PLURAL
cúiseanna
GENITIVE PLURAL
cúiseanna
STAITISTICÍ · STATISTICS
Is é cúis an 271ú focal is minice úsáid sa Ghaeilge. Tagann sé chun cinn uair amháin i ngach 3,325 focal.
Cúis is the 271th most frequently used word in Irish. It occurs once in every 3,325 words.
Samplaí gaolmhara
Related examples
tiontaíonn siad cúis mhaith ina ceap áiféise
they turn a good cause into an object of ridicule
cúis áthais
a reason to be happy
is cúis imní é
it's something to worry about
dhéanfadh leath an méid sin cúis
half of that amount would do
mhínigh na cúiseanna dom
she explained the reasons to me
ba mhór cúis na Gaeilge le m'athair
the Irish-language cause was very dear to my father
Ar chúis éigin bhí eagla orm roimh na madraí marbha nach raibh cor astu.
Alan Titley: Gluaiseacht, An Gúm, 2009
For some reason I was afraid of the dead dogs even though they didn't even move.
B'é scéimhlitheoireacht an chéad rud a rith le daoine sular tháinig deimhniú gurbh iad cúinsí seismeacha ba chúis leis an rud.
'Beo!', beo.ie
The first that people though of was terrorism, until it transpired that the thing [the earthquake] has seismic causes.
An chúis is go bhfuil meath tagtha ar bhlaganna na Gaeilge ...
'Beo!', beo.ie
The biggest reason why Irish-language blogs have started declining is...
nárbh é an sclábhaíocht an t-aon chúis le cogadh cathartha na Stát Aontaithe, ba cheist lárnach í.
'Beo!', beo.ie
Although slavery was not the only cause of the United States civil war, it was a central question.