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Celtoid
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Username: Celtoid
Post Number: 28
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Monday, September 27, 2004 - 08:07 am: | 
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Another case of understanding the words, but not understanding the sentence!
"Bhí sise ag fuasaoid le scaitheamh agus chinn sé ar na dochtúirí mórán breithiúnais a fháil uirthi, ná mórán maitheasa a dhéanamh di, ainneoin a bhfuaireadar dá hanró."
I'm particularly confused about the use of "ná". |
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Aonghus
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Username: Aonghus
Post Number: 190
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Monday, September 27, 2004 - 09:02 am: |
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She had been complaining for a while, and the doctors failed to diagnose her problems, nor did they do her any good, despite what they got for their trouble.
"ná" is being used as "nor"
To paraphrase: The wife is ill, he's spending a fortune on doctors, and they can't find out what's wrong or alleviate it. |
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Celtoid
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Username: Celtoid
Post Number: 29
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 28, 2004 - 07:34 am: |
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((("ná" is being used as "nor")))
I suspected that, but I've never seen it without a negative verb, which threw me. I thought it should have been "nó". Go raibh maith agat arís, a Aonghuis. |
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Aonghus
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Username: Aonghus
Post Number: 199
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 28, 2004 - 10:02 am: |
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Fáilte is fiche romhat
From the usual source:
ná [cónasc]
= nó in abairt dhiúltach (níl mac ná iníon aige).
I think "chinn orthu" "they failed" is negative which is why it is ná not nó
(Message edited by aonghus on September 28, 2004) |
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