life in Irish
saol
life
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Irish · EnglishNí síscéal é an saol. Má chailleann tú do bhróg ag meán oíche, tá tú ar meisce.
Life is not a fairytale. If you lose your shoe at midnight, you're drunk.B1
Chuir sé é féin den saol leis an ól.
He drank himself to death.A2
Síneann brón an saol; Giorraíonn sonas é.
Sadness lengthens life; happiness shortens it.B1
Chaith na fir a saol ag baint guail.
The men spent their lives mining coal.A2
An raibh saol fada aici?
Did she have a long life?A2
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You may also meet these forms of saol in a sentence.
- Base form
- saol
- Séimhiú
- shaol
- Réamhlitir t
- tsaol
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