Denoting measure or dimension: dà throidh air àirde, _two feet in height_.
Olc air mhath leat e, _whether you take it well or ill_.
_In.:_ Anns an tigh, _in the house_; anns an oidhche, _in the night_; ann an dòchas, _in hope_; anns a' bharail sin, _of that opinion_.
Denoting existence: ta abhainn ann, _there is a river_, Psal. xlvi. 4, metr.; nach bithinn ann ni 's mò, _that I should not be any more_; b' fhearr a bhi marbh na ann, _it were better to be dead than to be alive_; ciod a th' ann? _what is it?_ is mise th' ann, _it is I_; mar gu b' ann, _as it were_; tha e 'n a dhuine ionraic, _he is a just man_; tha i 'n a bantraich, _she is a widow_[91].
Marking emphasis: is ann air eigin a thàr e as, _it was with difficulty he got off_; an àite seasamh is ann a theich iad, _instead of standing (keeping their ground) they fled_; nach freagair thu? fhreagair mi ann, _will you not answer? I have answered_.
_Out of:_ as an dúthaich, _out of the country_.
Denoting extinction: tha an solus, no an teine, air dol as, _the light, or the fire, is gone out_.
As an alt, _out of joint_; as a' ghualainn, as a' chruachainn, as an uilinn, &c., _dislocated in the shoulder, hip, elbow-joint_.
_Of:_ Armailt mhòr de dhaoinibh agus a dh' eachaibh, _a great army of men and horses_.
_Off:_ Bha na geugan air an sgathadh dheth, _the branches were lopped off_; thug iad an ceann deth, _they beheaded him_.
Dh' aon rùn, _with one consent, with one purpose_; dh' aon bharail, _with one mind, judgment_.
A là agus a dh' oidhche, _i.e._, de là agus de oidhche, _by day and by night_. Lat. _de nocte_, Hor.
Saidhbhreas mór d'a mheud, _riches however great_. Psal. cxix. 14, metr.
_To:_ Tabhair dhomh, _give to me, give me_; thug sinn a bos mìn do Dhearg, _we gave her soft hand to Dargo_.
Dh' eirich sud dha gu h-obann, _that befell him suddenly_. Mar sin duinne gu latha, _so it fared with us till day, so we passed the night_; ma 's olc dhomh, cha n-fhearr dhoibh, _if it goes ill with me, they fare no better_.
Latha dhomhsa siubhal bheann, _one day as I travelled the hills_; latha dhuinn air machair Alba, _one day when we were in the lowlands of Scotland; on Scotia's plains_.
_Between:_ eadar an dorus agus an ursainn, _between the door and the post_.
