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Sieirál
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Username: Sieirál
Post Number: 62
Registered: 01-2008
| | Posted on Monday, September 22, 2008 - 10:15 am: |   
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I've been using some online Irish lessons and I came across a lesson on "ó", and they are saying to use it to say that you are from a town or area. "Is ó Chorcaigh dom." But in another book I've been using, they say to use "as" "out of" "Cad as duit?" etc...
I need to know which is better to use or if there is a difference in meaning that I should use one over the other in a certain situation.
Go raibh maith agaibh! |
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Aonghus
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Username: Aonghus
Post Number: 7529
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Monday, September 22, 2008 - 10:56 am: |
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I would use "as".
"Ó" is not wrong, but I'm nearly sure "as" is commoner. |
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Lughaidh
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Username: Lughaidh
Post Number: 2494
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Monday, September 22, 2008 - 12:17 pm: |
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In such sentences, "ó" is mainly used in Munster Irish, while Connaught and Ulster would use "as".
By the way, the question "cad as duit?" is Munster too; in Connemara they'd say "cé as duit?" and in Ulster "cá as tú?" or "cárb as tú?" or "cárb as duit?".
Learn Irish pronunciation here: www.phouka.com/gaelic/sounds/sounds.htm & http://fsii.gaeilge.org/
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