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Jeannette
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Username: Jeannette

Post Number: 43
Registered: 01-2005
Posted on Thursday, June 25, 2009 - 04:54 pm:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

Why would you say Dath buí atá ar an rothair.
instead of Tá buí an rothair.
How do you translate both? Color yellow ? at the bike and It is yellow the bike.

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Lughaidh
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Username: Lughaidh

Post Number: 3025
Registered: 01-2005


Posted on Thursday, June 25, 2009 - 05:04 pm:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

Dath buí atá ar an rothar = (It is) a yellow colour that is on the bicycle.

Tá buí an rothar is wrong, it would mean "The yellow of the bicycle is".

The most simple way to say that the bike is yellow is "Tá an rothar buí", or "tá dath buí ar an rothar" (=there is a yellow colour on the bike).

Learn Irish pronunciation here: http://loig.cheveau.ifrance.com/irish/irishsounds/irishsounds.html & http://fsii.gaeilge.org/



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