Hi guys,

In a book I'm reading, a character just realised that they had run out of petrol. As the character is American, he exclaimed:

"Out of fuel?!" (it's half a question, half an exclamation)

How would an Irish speaker say the same thing? This is in the case where they need to communicate to the reader what they thing has happened.

Grma, Briain.

As peitreal!
Out of fuel! (morel literally: "Out of petrol" = "Out of gas" in North America)

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What came out of the petrol?

The "out" in the English phrase "out of petrol" is an adverb, not a preposition, but there is no equivalent adverb in Irish.

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If you are not a good guest, you have no right to complain about receiving poor hospitality.

Tá 'n peitreal ídithe againn!

Taimid tar-éis an pheitril a ídiú!

'bhfuil an peitreal/ breosla (go léir) ídithe againn?

Is dócha go bhféadfaí/ go bhfuighfí caite (caithte) dh'úsáíd i n-ionad ídithe leis

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The word as can also mean "out of" in the sense of lacking something, Niall. See FGB under as, meaning 3(c), where the example given is Táimid as bainne = "We're out of milk."

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I'm not a native (or entirely fluent) speaker, so be sure to wait for confirmations/corrections, especially for tattoos.