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is fheàirrde

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Scottish Gaelic

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Pronunciation

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Phrase

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is fheàirrde (past/conditional b' fheàirrde)

  1. to be the better of, to be better off for
    's fheàirrde duine gàirelaughter is good for you (literally, “a man is better off for laughing”)
    chan fheàirrde thu siudyou are not the better of that, that does you no good

References

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  1. ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎[1], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
  2. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap