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to kill (past of maraigh) in Irish

mharaigh

to kill (past of maraigh)

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Mharaigh sé é féin leis an ól.

He drank himself to death.A2

Mharaigh sé mé.

He killed me.A1

Dhéanfadh sé aon rud chun díoltas a bhaint as toisc gur mharaigh sé a athair.

He would do anything to take revenge on him because he had killed his father.B1

B'fhéidir go raibh a fhios ag Bin Laden sular mharaigh fórsaí speisialta Mheiriceá é gur athraigh sé an domhan as cuimse.

Maybe Bin Laden knew before he was killed by American special forces that he had changed the world utterly.B2

Forms & mutations Treigladau / Claochluithe

You may also meet these forms of mharaigh in a sentence.

Base form
mharaigh
Séimhiú
mhharaigh
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