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Alex
| Posted on Tuesday, April 27, 2004 - 11:47 pm: |
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I hope I said that right,lol...could you also say "Bionn míle ceist air!" Also I was curios, When I see "Ag an gcat" why is there úrú? Also may I ask in which dialects do they make the n in "an" and the g in "ag" silent before another consanant? |
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Alex
| Posted on Tuesday, April 27, 2004 - 11:48 pm: |
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lol can you say "Níl mé ag dul má dul sí" |
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Fear na mBróg
| Posted on Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 02:42 am: |
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Firstly, all prepositions take a séimhiú: ar bhata de dhoras ó charr faoi fhear roimh éan roimh chapall thar bhean trí fhuinneog do pháiste The only exceptions are the following ones: as cat ag madra dar tideal os cionn chuig Gailimh go Sasana le Seán Also: go hÉirinn le hAonghus Those two stick a h before a vowel "i" takes an urú: i mbosca i nGailimh i gcathair i bpáirc --- The noun is said to be in the dative case when there's a preposition before it. --- When a preposition comes with "an", they all get urú's: ar an mbata ón gcarr faoin bhfear roimh an éan roimh an gcapall thar an mbean tríd an bhfhuinneog as an gcat ag an madra dar an dtideal os an gcionn chuig an gCabhán go dtí an bosca (exception!) leis an mbus i + an -> ins an -> sa ins an mbuachaill sa bhuachaill do + an -> don don pheann de + an -> den den pháiste --- And that's just how it works! |
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Aonghus
| Posted on Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 09:36 am: |
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Tá míle ceist agam. Níl mé ag dul má théann sí Fear na mBróg seems to have eloquently explained the other. |
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