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Lesson 4 of 10

Counting to ten in Irish

One to ten, for prices, platforms, rooms and how many beers. Play the ten Irish words against the clock, with a note on how locals really use each one after every answer. All ten are written out below.

Silage harvesting in County Meath
Counting to ten
10 words · 20 seconds each · 8 of 10 to pass
What it meansHow to say it
Peter Mooney, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

All 10 Irish phrases in this lesson

A haonuh HAYN
One

The a in front is the counting form.

A dóuh DOH
Two
A tríuh TREE
Three
A ceathairuh KAH-hir
Four
A cúiguh KOO-ig
Five
A séuh SHAY
Six
A seachtuh SHAKHT
Seven
A hochtuh HOKHT
Eight
A naoiuh NEE
Nine
A deichuh DEH
Ten

Where Irish is spoken

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