Pota Focal Intergaelic
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masla maslach masmas mata matamaitic matamaiticeoir matán máthair máthartha meá meabhair meabhairghalar meabhairshláinte meabhraigh meacan meáchan méad méadaigh méadar méadú
máthair
FEMININE NOUN
OPPOSITE: athair
mother
Foirmeacha gramadaí
Grammatical forms
máthair
FEMININE NOUN
GENITIVE SINGULAR
máthar
NOMINATVE PLURAL
máithreacha
GENITIVE PLURAL
máithreacha
Iontrálacha gaolmhara
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máthair mhór
SYNONYM: seanmháthair
OPPOSITE: athair mór
grandmother
STAITISTICÍ · STATISTICS
Is é máthair an 239ú focal is minice úsáid sa Ghaeilge. Tagann sé chun cinn uair amháin i ngach 2,962 focal.
Máthair is the 239th most frequently used word in Irish. It occurs once in every 2,962 words.
Samplaí gaolmhara
Related examples
níorbh aon ionadh gurbh é an saol acadúil a bhí i ndán don bhuachaill óg, agus a mháthair ina dochtúir leighis
it was no surprise that an academic life was in store for the young boy when his mother was a medical doctor
tháinig dreach imníoch ar aghaidh na máthar
mother started looking worried
cosúil le mo mháthair
you are like my mother
an mháthair ar a glúine ag guí
the mother is on her knees praying
An bhfaca a mháthair?
Have you seen his mother?
D'fhág slán ag mo mháthair agus d'imigh .
I said goodbye to my mother and left.
Conas do mháthair?
Diarmuid Ó Sé, Joseph Shiels: Teach Yourself Irish, Teach Yourself Books, 1998
How is your mother?
Is é Dónall an t-athair agus is í Áine an mháthair.
Diarmuid Ó Sé, Joseph Shiels: Teach Yourself Irish, Teach Yourself Books, 1998
Dónal is the father and Áine is the mother.
Is í an bhean sin a mháthair.
Colloquial Irish: The Complete Course for Beginners, Routledge, 2008
That woman is his mother.
Réitím níos fearr le m'athair le mo mháthair.
Éamonn Ó Dónaill: Turas Teanga, RTÉ/Gill & Macmillan, 2004
I get on better with my father than with my mother.
seo mo mháthair
this is my mother
chuala an scéal óna máthair a bhí seasca bliain d'aois um an dtaca sin
she had heard the story from her mother who was seventy at that time
An le do mháthair atá i do chónaí?
Éamonn Ó Dónaill: Turas Teanga, RTÉ/Gill & Macmillan, 2004
Are you living with your mother?
aintín le mo mháthair ina cónaí linn chomh maith.
Éamonn Ó Dónaill: Turas Teanga, RTÉ/Gill & Macmillan, 2004
My mother's aunt is living with us as well.
Is as Béal Feirste do mo mháthair agus m'athair.
'Gaeilge gan Stró!', Beginners Level, ranganna.com
My mother and father are from Belfast.
Ghoin go mbeadh mo mháthair ag lorg déirce.
It hurt me that my mother should be begging.
Bhí tar éis titim amach lena máthair.
She had fallen out with her mother.
Chuaigh lena mháthair ar ghreim láimhe go teach na scoile.
Séamus Ó Grianna: Caisleáin Óir, eag. Niall Ó Dónaill, Cló Mercier, 1976
His mother led him by the hand to school.
A mháthair mhór, is a chan an fhírinne.
Séamus Ó Grianna: Caisleáin Óir, eag. Niall Ó Dónaill, Cló Mercier, 1976
You were right, grandma.