Irish word

mharaigh

to kill (past of maraigh)

verbmasculine/ˈvˠɑɾˠɪɟ/

mharaigh means “to kill (past of maraigh)” in Irish and is used as a verb. Its recorded IPA pronunciation is /ˈvˠɑɾˠɪɟ/.

Mutation forms

Mutation	Form
Base form	mharaigh
Séimhiú	mhharaigh

Mharaigh sé é féin leis an ól.

He drank himself to death.

Mharaigh sé mé.

He killed me.

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.

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.

Time

tosaigh

to begin

críochnaigh

finish

níos

lean

to follow

fan

to wait

deir

says

mair

live

cinnte

certain, sure

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