A chairde, In ceacht a cúig, Tús Maith explains séimhiú and urú [lenition and eclipsis]. I'd like to go back to ceacht a ceathair and ask one of our...
Haigh! ... aige doras, aige fear aige'n doras, aige'n fhear ag obair... ... ar bhus, ar fhear ar a' bhus, ar an doras... In some set phrases, "ar" doesn't...
Thank you very much, Lughaidh, for that concise and complete explanation. May I ask a couple more questions? --I understand that "an" is pronounced "a" or "n"...
Thank you so much for the invite to your group. I feel that I should stay with the dialect I started with and this is a perfect match. Hopefully, I will...
Fáilte romhat a Robert! Lughaidh gaeilge201 <gaeilge201@...> a écrit : Thank you so much for the invite to your group. I feel that I should stay with...
Dia daoibh agus beannachtaí na Cásca (for those who observe it),First of all, am I the only one doing this? Or maybe I'm the only one with questions?...
HI, Your not alone. I just recieved my book a few days ago. There's a guy with almost the same name and almost the same street as me.so he gets my mail. I am...
Haigh! ... No, not before verbal nouns: it remains a' or ag or 'g or nothing, according to the previous sound and to the following one. Sorry for not having...
... I think you did, but we just hadn't seen enough verbal nouns for me to see the pattern. ... The book is correct on these two--I copied them down wrong. Go...
Excellent! Do you want an extra week or so to get caught up, or do you already have some knowledge of Irish to help you along? We have no one forcing us to...
Okay, I'll start. Someone else please write something, too, even it it's just one sentence from the book which you have modified a bit. Tá sé maidin Dé...
Haigh! ... I'd say "Anois maidin Dé Sathairn". I don't think you can use "tá" in such sentence. I've never heard it. ... teach = house ; teacht = coming. ...
Go raibh maith agat! Now I have some questions about your corrections. ... Two questions here! Is this a rule? Can I say "Ba mhaith liom + leniting a +...
... Actually it is ba mhaith liom + verbal noun. But 3 verbs have a leniting "a" in most cases before their verbal nouns: teacht, gabháil (when meaning "to...
... Your English is fine; it's the English language that's weird! Thank you for the explanations--now I have more questions, though. Can you ever use ag +...
Haigh! ... You can, but not in Ulster. People use "ag" in such sentences in Connemara and in Munster, not in Ulster. ... An maith leat putóg dhubh? Do you...
Níor mhaith liom a bheith tusa. I wouldn't like to be you. -> Is it a sentence of yours of is it in NYT? Because it's wrong: you can't use "bheith" in such...
Oh, I didn't know you would say that in English as well. Now, I dunno if English has borrowed the idiom from Irish or vice-versa! I learnt that idiom in Irish...
Dia dhaoibh! Here are the cleachtadh and comhrá for lesson 8--comments or questions? The grammar point is verbs of statei mo + séimhiú i do + séimhiú ina...
... Hi, I can understand about half of what you wrote--I'm a real beginner! We are using the book Tús Maith, which is available in various online and brick...
Haigh a chairde! ... Normally in Standard it is "in bhur", and in Ulster, "in mur". ... Not sure "leanaí" is used in Ulster... Leaba is "leabaidh" in Ulster,...
Life has been crazy here (Could I say Tá an beo buile anseo? It's still crazy, so I used the present tense instead of the past.) I'm still on ceacht a naoi....
Haigh! ... Still with urú? ... What is said instead of "leanaí"? Is there any difference between "ins an leabaidh" and "sa leabaidh"? Go raibh maith agat, a...
