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Harrison
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Username: Harrison
Post Number: 25
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Monday, July 04, 2005 - 01:55 am: | 
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I found this while looking at the "Cómhra Oscailte as Gaeilge", and I don't really understand what this means:
Níl Gaeilge ag an gcuid is mó de mhuintir na hEireann?
Is it something along the lines of asking "A majority of Irish people don't speak Irish?"? Just a far-fetched guess. Go raibh maith agaibh. |
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Paul_h
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Username: Paul_h
Post Number: 28
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Monday, July 04, 2005 - 06:05 am: |
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that's how I understood it although if I'm not mistaken, the gramatical construction is not in question format; rather it's a statement.
"An bhfuil Gaeilge....?" - positive question
"Nach bhfuil Gaeilge.....?" - negative
but is the statement correct in any case? |
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Asarlaí
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Username: Asarlaí
Post Number: 11
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Monday, July 04, 2005 - 06:58 am: |
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That's right Harrison
Cuid - part/portion
cuid is mó - largest part/majority
Níl Gaeilge agam - I don't have/speak Irish
Níl Gaeilge ag -
an gcuid is mó de mhuintir na hÉireann
The majority of the people of Ireland (Irish people)
Paul, Nach bhfuil gaeilge agat? - lit. Isn't there Irish at you? - (Don't you speak Irish) |
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Jonas
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Username: Jonas
Post Number: 723
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Monday, July 04, 2005 - 07:57 am: |
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"but is the statement correct in any case?"
Oh yes. I'm sad to say it, but it's a very obvious statement. |
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Harrison
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Username: Harrison
Post Number: 26
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Monday, July 04, 2005 - 04:13 pm: |
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Wow, I feel proud of myself now. Go raibh maith agaibh aríst. |
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Lughaidh
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Username: Lughaidh
Post Number: 439
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Monday, July 04, 2005 - 05:33 pm: |
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Note: ní thigim = i don’t come (in Ulster Irish).
"I don’t understand" = ní thuigim.
Anyway, both sentences are pronounced the same way: /N'i: hig'@m'/ |
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