Scríobh Lughaidh i snáithe eile:

quote:

Aontaím go hiomlán lenar scríobh Ciarán Ó Duibhín.

Tá ceist agam.

In this context, is "lenar" a contraction of:

a) le + ar
or
b) leis + ar

Does what you've written mean:

quote:

I agree entirely with all that Ciarán Ó Diubhín wrote.

?

If you had written:

quote:

Aontaím go hiomlán leis a scríobh Ciarán Ó Duibhín.

would it mean:

quote:

I agree entirely with what Ciarán Ó Diubhín wrote.

?

Nach ceart "ceist ghramadaí" a scríobh seachas "Ceist Ghraiméir" ? Tá fuaim cosúil le 'grammaire' ag Ghraiméir nach bhfuil..

>In this context, is "lenar" a contraction of:
>a) le + ar
>or
>b) leis + ar

le + ar (indirect relative particle, past tense)

>Does what you've written mean:
>quote:I agree entirely with all that Ciarán Ó Diubhín >wrote.

That’s it.

>quote:Aontaím go hiomlán leis a scríobh Ciarán Ó >Duibhín.

I think you can’t say that. It means "i agree with him that CÓD wrote."

>quote:I agree entirely with what Ciarán Ó Diubhín wrote.

This would be "Aontaím go hiomláin leis an rud/le gach rud a scríobh C.", or something like that.

NB: i wrote aontaim without séimhiú on the í on purpose: in Ulster the ending is normally -am in speech (I dunno if we can write -am or if it’s just a pronounciation of -aim), even with 2nd class verbes: I buy = ceannaim /k'aNəm/.


>Nach ceart "ceist ghramadaí" a scríobh seachas "Ceist >Ghraiméir" ? Tá fuaim cosúil le 'grammaire' ag >Ghraiméir nach bhfuil..

Tá an focal "graiméar" ann i nGaeilg ach ciallaíonn sé "grammar book".

Graiméar = grammar book
Gramadach = the "science" of grammar

quote:

Nach ceart "ceist ghramadaí" a scríobh seachas "Ceist Ghraiméir" ? Tá fuaim cosúil le 'grammaire' ag Ghraiméir nach bhfuil.

In English, I say:

I have a grammar question.

I don't say:

I have a grammatical question.

The former would be:

Tá ceist ghraiméir agam.

The latter:

Tá ceist ghramadaí agam.


Now as for why I say "grammar" instead of "grammatical"... well I think the latter suggests that the question itself is grammatical, rather than what the question is asking about... ? I'm never good with explaining this kind of stuff -- all I know is that it feels right (in Engish in anyway!).

Ach ní hionann Béarla agus Gaeilge.

A Lughaidh, mar sin, le rá 'tá graiméar agam', ciallíonn sé 'I have a grammar book'.

Go díreach.

Ahhh ha! Tuigim é!