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ar fad
- still (up to a time, as in the preceding time)
An bhfuil sé beo ar fad?- Is he still alive?
- all, fully
Glaofaidh mé an mhuintir eile ar fad.- I’ll call all the others.
Ní drochdhuine ar fad é.- He is not all bad.
- always
Tá teach na mbocht ansin ar fad.- There is always the workhouse.
Is ag bisiú ar fad atá sé.- It is getting better and better.
- quite, clean (to the greatest extent, fully, completely)
Sin scéal eile ar fad.- That is quite another thing.
Rinne mé dearmad ar fad air.- I clean forgot.
- a mhalairt ar fad ― quite the contrary
- altogether (without exception, wholly, completely)
Tá sé lasmuigh de mo raonsa ar fad.- It’s off my beat altogether.
- away (on; in continuance; without intermission or delay)
Bhí an tine ina caor ar fad.- The fire was blazing away.
- long, in length (with units of measurement)
1988, Mícheál Ó Siadhail, Learning Irish, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 100:Tá an t-oileán é féin timpeall’s trí mhíle ar leithead agus míle ar fhad.- The island itself is about three miles wide and one mile long.
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