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Odwyer
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Username: Odwyer
Post Number: 26
Registered: 05-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, June 01, 2006 - 02:32 pm: |   
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What is the difference between An and Ar? |
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Lars
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Username: Lars
Post Number: 47
Registered: 08-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, June 01, 2006 - 03:48 pm: |
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If yo refer to question particles:
an: to be used in all tenses except past tense of most verbs
ar (< an + ro): to be used in past tense of most verbs.
That's the only difference.
Lars
(Message edited by Lars on June 01, 2006) |
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Robert (Unregistered Guest)
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| | Posted on Thursday, June 01, 2006 - 04:24 pm: |
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If you wanna be very basic:
an is the definite article, the 'the' of Irish when in the null cases
an followed by a masc noun just means 'the X'. Bord (table) -->an bord 'the table'.
With a fem noun it results in lenition. Ex: 'cuileog' (fly) --> 'an chuileog' 'the fly'
ar is the prepostion meaning 'on'. It will generally result in lenition when a noun follows of eiher gender
ar bhord 'on a table'
ar shúil 'on an eye' |
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Robert (Unregistered Guest)
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| | Posted on Thursday, June 01, 2006 - 04:25 pm: |
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Unless someone tells me 'in Conemara they dont lenite 's' after 'ar'' etc |
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Odwyer
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Username: Odwyer
Post Number: 32
Registered: 05-2006
| | Posted on Friday, June 02, 2006 - 04:26 pm: |
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OK thanks guys! |
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