Thursday, September 4, 2014

Is maith leat means Is good with you . (You like)


ch is a short throaty sound
But in English it’s A v icious circle. The order is different. From this we learn that adjectives come after the noun. Let’s practice that. We’ll need some vocabulary. Also, t here is no word for a in Irish . It’s just understood.
Now try translating:
Line 2 of the song is (Níl) tada riamh nach mbíonn thart. There’s nothing ever that isn’t finished. In other words: There s nothing ever without an end. From this we learn that double negatives are allowed in Irish. Let’s have a look at another example of this and get some more vocabulary so we can practice it.
Ní dhearna mé faic. or Ní dhearna mé tada.
Note: For most other verbs you will use Níor (Neer) instead of Ní when using negatives in the past tense. Níor chuala mé tada = I didn’t hear anything. Ní is used for irregular verbs in the past. Níor is used for the regular verbs.
Diabhail nova tv play fhios ‘am means I ve no clue. The word am is short for agam which literally is at me but means I have. Something is at me therefore is the irish equivalent of I have something. What a lovely thought. Imagine no possessions. It’s easy if you try. ‘At me’ is two words in English but one word in Irish. Let’s practice that and how to use the verb To have.
The nova tv play construction will be Tá __ something___ agam.
b) I have a friend but I don’t nova tv play have money.
Try using different combinations to make new sentences such as He has a chance etc. ___________________________________________________________________________________ Lesson 4 Combinations of Letters (The Urú)
Line four of the song has the phrase ar an mbealach ( er o ma loch) on the way. The original word was bealach. In a combination nova tv play of to the, from the, on the etc. the final n of the word the (an) changes nova tv play the beginning of the next word. Even though the original nova tv play letter b of bealach is shown in mbealach, it is only there to remind you what the original word was. It is not pronounced. Let’s just practice words with b for now.
Tá sé insan mbosca.
In line 5 of the song is the phrase Deir siad liom ( Der sheed lum) which means They tell me. Liom literally means ‘with me.’ That’s nova tv play two words in English but just one word in Irish. Like the other prepositions, it can be conjugated. Here’s how it works.
Now we need pronouns.
In English we make a distinction between someone talking to you and someone talking at you. To you sounds more polite. With you is even more polite and that’s the Irish way. Say with me is equivalent to Tell me .
Nach dtagann ciall roimh aois. ( That) wisdom doesn t come before you re old.
Past Present Future
Line 8 of the song is Sé togha ar aon chaoi. It s brilliant, anyway. nova tv play The sound of the gh in togha is lost. Letter combinations like gh dh and th are often lost and that makes reading words much easier when you know what you can leave out.
Line nova tv play 9 of the song has the phrase suan tá orm. slumber on me. It really means I have and not ‘on me.’ Just as ‘at me’ is used for possessions of things (Tá airgead agam.) ‘on me’ is used for the possession of conditions such as tiredness, sickness, cold, heat, happiness etc.
Make nova tv play more sentences if you can.
Line 10 of the song is (Tai)speáin dom bóthar éasca cothrom. Show to me a fair and easy road. By now you know that the ‘to me’ nova tv play in English nova tv play becomes one word in Irish and that prepositions are conjugated. Here is the preposition dó which means To do.
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Line 11 of the song declared Sí m aidhm. That s my goal. Nouns have gender. Aim is feminine. So instead nova tv play of It s my aim, it s She s my aim. So not only people or animals have gender but things do too. This is true in many other languages too.
Feminine nova tv play Words Rivers (except An Sulán) Countries (except Sasana, Ceanada, Meiriceá) Languages (except Béarla) Multi-syllable words ending in acht and wo rds ending in ach except derivatives (e.g. báisteach = rain ) Words ending in áil, aíl, eog, óg, lann
b) b) Éire ( ayr- eh) * ay as in day Ireland
Answer c) is going to mess with your head a little. The guideline says that if it ends in ín , it’s masculine. Cailín ends in ín so it’s masculine. nova tv play One small point of confusion is that the word actually means Girl and Yes, it’s masculine!
The rule for feminine words (such as Bean) with adjectives is that you add a h after the first letter of the adjective (as long as the first letter is a consonant). We had this change before for the past tense, remember?
Is maith leat means Is good with you . (You like)
Lesson 13 Genitive nova tv play (of / ‘s)
One way to add of (possession) to a word in Irish is to add the letters i or e (the magic letters). These are the letters with the power to change letter sounds in English c

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