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Faberm
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Username: Faberm
Post Number: 112
Registered: 02-2009
| | Posted on Friday, January 29, 2010 - 04:56 pm: |   
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I have looked through my verb book and don't find the form "Ba" in the verb bí. I would have thought that it would be conditional tense, but don't find it. Is it the conditional form of be? Perhaps it was just left out? |
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Bodhrán
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Username: Bodhrán
Post Number: 79
Registered: 09-2009
| | Posted on Friday, January 29, 2010 - 05:52 pm: |
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Ba serves as both the past tense and conditional mood of the copula.
Is maith liom é = I like it
Ba mhaith liom é = I would like it or I liked it.
I think that's correct.
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Breandán
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Username: Breandán
Post Number: 369
Registered: 12-2008
| | Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 03:08 am: |
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Yes, as Bodhrán says, Ba is the past and conditional form of the copula is. (You need to look under is in the dictionary to find it.) |
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| | Posted on Friday, January 29, 2010 - 07:44 pm: |
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Bí and the copula are two different verbs. Ba is not a form of bhí. It is a form of "is". |
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