"Blianta, míonna, seachtainí, laethanta agus uaireanta."

Translation: Years, months, weeks, days and hours.

[khmanuel]

Agus noimeid.

[SeanFogart4]

It's nóiméad in Irish, agus soicind.

[SatharnPHL]

nóiméid is the plural of nóiméad, in line with all the other plural words in the exercise.

The plural of soicind is soicindí.

[sean721187]

Couldn't you also say 'sometimes', instead of 'hours'. I was marked incorrect.

[SeanMacAonghusa]

Literally it can mean "sometimes" but when already listing other nouns that are durations of time I don't think it would really make sense to translate it as "sometimes" in this case

[SeanMacAonghusa]

is "laethanta" the exception to the rule "caol le caol agus leathan le leathan"?

[Lancet]

You're right! There is a tiny handful of words that don't follow this rule. Another exception would be ospidéal hospital. Also, the rule doesn't apply to compound words (like UaSirideain's great example breithlá).

[AnLonDubhBeag]

'ae' is how 'é' is written when it is between two broad consonants, so the consonants next to it are understood to be broad.

[UaSirideain]

"Breithlá" is another exception, but it's clearly two separate words "breith (birth)" and "lá (day)" put together.

By the same rule, I wonder does "thanta" mean anything on it's own...

[cathmach]

As far as I know in this case the exception is not because laethanta is a compound but because "ae" is being treated as a single broad vowel and therefore the vowel after the "th" is broad also. The same thing happens in several other (non-compound) words such as "Gaeltacht" and "aerach".

[cathmach]

Sorry - just saw AnLonDubhBeag's post saying pretty much the same thing. By the way - has anyone got any idea what the story is behind "ospidéal" breaking the rule?

[ChromateX]

I can only imagine what yoctoseconds would be like...

But in all seriousness, does that "sometimes" are "hours"?