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Mar chuir m? t?s leis dul ar scoil nua, bh? tuirse orm seachtain seo. Those clauses should reverse order to sound more natural. When you say "this week", you must include the article aswell. For "I started going to a new school", it sounds more natural to say "chuir m? t?s le scoil nua", i.e. witho...

? a shiarcais, n? b? do mo chr? a mhac an diabhail!

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That's all well and good. But what if you want to use a pronoun? This is where personal pronouns come in, another trait of Irish. If you'll allow a quibble: I would call these inflected prepositions , since the conventional definition of personal pronouns makes them a feature of virtually every nat...

Posession in Irish Irish is known for it's lack of a verb "to have" or similar. Instead, to convey the notion of posession, you say that something is at something else. "At" in Irish is ag /Eg/. [I know that the verb b? hasn't been covered here yet, but hey!] Eg: T? m?la ag Aisling. ~ "Aisling has ...

Go raibh maith agat, a Dhelboy. T? a fhios agam gurbh ? m'iarracht a rinne m? ag Gaeilge go dona go leor, T? a fhios agam go raibh an iarracht a rinne m? ag [labhairt na] Gaeilge dona go leor agus t? freisin a fhios agam "Freisin" goes at the end of a clause; it never comes between things like "t? ...

1 -- -Klaivas- I have a feeling that G?idhlig is easier than Gaeilge. 2 -- Linguoboy: It is damn irregular! But not when you look at the bigger picture. cf: Chonaic t? ?. ~ "You saw her." An bhfaca t? ?? ~ "Did you see her?" Usually the "question" form of the past tense is used in relative clauses l...

Relative Clauses In Irish, relative clauses are made by placing a or ar (restricted to certain past tense usage) after the substantive, then the subclause with either lenition or eclipsion to the verb, depeding on the subject: Sin an bhean. Bhuail s? m?. ~ "That's the woman. She hit me." Sin an bhe...

JohnQPublik wrote:Time to discuss metaphor...

This is what I've been waiting for! And John, you have no idea how much these lessons are helping me! Thanks!

VERBS Irish verbs have two conjugations: all mono-syllabic verbs are in the 1st Conjugation, all bi-syllabic verbs are in the 2nd. There are also eleven irregular verbs. In each conjugation, there are the following forms: Present Imperfect Preterite Future Conditional Imperative The condition, howe...

I've decided to ressurect this thread. However, this time I shall post only grammar info, with no attempt at expanding vocabulary. Online dictionaries have a purpose!

Anyway, next Lesson coming soon!

Thank you, John, for donating your time to help us of less knowledge. It mustn't be easy dropping the novel-writing in favour of this like that! I'll certainly enjoy this thread; I know nothing on the topic of Cognitive linguists (and I'm quite afraid of those heftly library books). ::waits for more...

i really like the mood and aspect system.
(the retroflexes dont show on my work's Windows IE..)
the conjugating program looks really useful, and is fun to mess with (see what it does to your name)

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Thanks for all of your comments, the've been very helpful! I've decided not to give a list of all possible vowel letter combinations, and just tackle them as they crop up. (can't find the file I wrote anyway). I think i underestimated people's level of Irish, and I have officially decided to write a...

Grath wrote:Will this be coming back?

There will be a next lesson as soon as Dewrad posts the next Welsh lesson. This course is based on his one.

An Explanation of Irish Orthography Irish orthography uses 18 letters of the Roman Alphabet. J, k, v, x and z are used in loan-words only. The Irish Language makes to distinctions in its consonant inventory: velarised vs palatised (broad vs slender) consonants. This is indicated in the orthography ...

Following the success of An P?irt? Ceilteach in the recent Voom elections, I have decided to present to you a Course in Modern Irish. This is loosely based on Dewrad?s Course in Welsh . Please ignore the apparent plagiarism, and enjoy! If you have any questions about the course, or indeed any other ...