faigh bás
Irish
Etymology
Literally to find death.
Verb
faigh bás (present analytic faigheann bás, future analytic gheobhaidh bás, verbal noun bás a fháil, past participle faighte bás)
- to die (stop living)
- 1933, Peig Sayers (storyteller), “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, printed in Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry by M. L. Sjoestedt (Paris 1938), p. 193:
- Nuair a fuair sé bás, má bhí Máire brónach bhí sí sásta d’fhonn is go mbeadh an captaen óg le pósadh aici.
- When he died, even though Máire was sad, she was satisfied in the hope that the young captain would marry her.
- Nuair a fuair sé bás, má bhí Máire brónach bhí sí sásta d’fhonn is go mbeadh an captaen óg le pósadh aici.
- Fuair m'athair bás. ― My father died.
- 1933, Peig Sayers (storyteller), “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, printed in Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry by M. L. Sjoestedt (Paris 1938), p. 193:
Conjugation
conjugation of faigh bás: see faigh
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