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The Daltaí Boards » Archive: 2005- » 2006 (January-February) » Archive through February 06, 2006 » Briathra Neamhrialta « Previous Next »

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Pádraig
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Post Number: 376
Registered: 09-2004
Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 10:19 am:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

This may come under the heading: Tell-me-something-I-Don't-Already-Know, but after years of trying to remember which verbs are irregular while simultateously trying to learn the English to Irish vocabulary, I noticed that all the Irish irregular verbs are also irregular in English.

Wow! Let the boys in Huntsville step aside. We have our own rocket scientist!

For me, at least, this is a valuable bit of information. English I can remember and this gives me a handle on the Irish. Just thought I'd pass it on to anyone who may have been lost in the same patch of woods.

Ní maith é an duine a bheith leis féin.

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Dennis
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Post Number: 922
Registered: 02-2005


Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 11:28 am:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

As you've no doubt intuited by now, it is the most common verbs in all Indo-European languages that retain irregularities, simply because speakers get to "practice" them constantly, so they don't forget all the exceptions. The majority of verbs are subject to forces of "leveling" and end up regular, or at least more nearly regular, depending on the language.

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Fear_na_mbróg
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Post Number: 979
Registered: 08-2004
Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 12:29 pm:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

There's eleven irregular verbs in Irish. There's hundreds in English.

Fáilte Roimh Cheartúcháin

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Max
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Post Number: 300
Registered: 05-2005
Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 06:30 am:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

Is this a competition?

In this case, we should add to the list of criteria, as Dennis mentioned, the level of irregularity.

I believe the Irish irregular verbs "out-irregular" the English irregular verbs (which show 3 different forms tops - except "be" which has 4: "be", "was", "were" and "been" - and of which, though technically "hundreds", there are around 200).

Can French compete?

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Domhnall
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Post Number: 480
Registered: 06-2005


Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 01:14 pm:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

As luck would have it the 11 irregular are more or less the most commonly used ones..

A people without a language of its own is only half a nation.A nation should guard its language more than its territories, 'tis a surer barrier and a more important frontier than mountain or river



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