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Seamás91
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Username: Seamás91
Post Number: 246
Registered: 10-2009
| | Posted on Friday, July 09, 2010 - 11:17 am: |   
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Leigh fe i nGaelport. An mb'fiu e an fanacht?
PS: i was trying to say 'would it be worth the wait', did I say that correctly?
'mar ná beidh ár leithidí arís ann'
-Tomás O'Croitháin (An t-Oiléanach)
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Seánw
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Username: Seánw
Post Number: 642
Registered: 07-2009
| | Posted on Friday, July 09, 2010 - 12:48 pm: |
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I prefer: An mb’fhiú dom fanacht leis?
I ndiaidh a chéile a thógtar na caisleáin.
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Seamás91
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Username: Seamás91
Post Number: 247
Registered: 10-2009
| | Posted on Friday, July 09, 2010 - 03:56 pm: |
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Beidh me cinnte a bhaint usaid as, a Sheanw.
(Message edited by seamás91 on July 09, 2010)
'mar ná beidh ár leithidí arís ann'
-Tomás O'Croitháin (An t-Oiléanach)
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Séasán
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Username: Séasán
Post Number: 7
Registered: 06-2010
| | Posted on Friday, July 09, 2010 - 04:41 pm: |
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"An mbeadh sé fiú fanacht leis?"
An mbeadh sé sin ceart nó mícheart?Would that be correct or incorrect? |
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Tuigim
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Username: Tuigim
Post Number: 13
Registered: 06-2010
| | Posted on Friday, July 09, 2010 - 06:20 pm: |
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Nó
An fiú fanacht leis?
Why not present tense? |
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Eadaoin
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Username: Eadaoin
Post Number: 69
Registered: 02-2009
| | Posted on Friday, July 09, 2010 - 06:20 pm: |
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"An mb'fiu e " ... ceapaim nach bhfuil "m" ann
Arbh fhiú é? would it be worth it?
b'fhiú é ...niorbh fhiú é ...
(Réchursa Gramadai)
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Taidhgín
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Username: Taidhgín
Post Number: 877
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, July 10, 2010 - 09:50 am: |
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I was going to join in but Éadaoin has beaten me to it. Arbh fhiú fanacht air? Would it be worth waiting for (it)? B'fhiú! It would. Níorbh fhiú. It would not. (The é etc is not used in such responses. The briefer the better.) That's the most precious grammatical feature we have in Irish: An Chopail / The Copula. We must defend it and fight off the constant encroachment by that other interloper: Bí (Tá / Bíonn / Bhí / Beidh / Bhíodh / Bheadh)  Did I hear somewhere that An Chopail / Copula has been lost entirely in Manx and less used in Gaidhlig na hAlban?  |
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Lughaidh
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Username: Lughaidh
Post Number: 3504
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, July 11, 2010 - 11:38 pm: |
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Seconded:
"Arbh fhiú fanacht leis?"
or
"An mb'fhiú fanacht leis?"
The copula hasn't disappeared in Manx, it is still used in many cases, but not really as in Irish, and quite often (in some cases) they use "ta" where you would have "is" in Irish, so it may be confusing if you know Irish and wanna learn Manx or vice-versa...
Scottish Gaelic uses the copula as much as in Irish, but not exactly in the same way, you say more often " 'S e peann a tha ann" than "Is peann e" (as we would have in Irish). They often use the "'S e X a tha ann (an) Y" while we would have "Is X Y" in Irish. But still, unlike Manx, you wouldn't use "tha" alone as a copula in Scottish Gaelic.
(Message edited by Lughaidh on July 11, 2010)
Learn Irish pronunciation here: http://loig.cheveau.ifrance.com/irish/irishsounds/irishsounds.html & http://fsii.gaeilge.org/
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Séasán
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Username: Séasán
Post Number: 14
Registered: 06-2010
| | Posted on Monday, July 12, 2010 - 04:00 pm: |
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Ar ábhar difriúil ar fad,tá ceist agam-cad é an Gaeilge ceart ar "Northern Ireland" :
Éire Thuaidh nó Tuaisceart Éireann?
Nó bhfuil an dá cheann ceart?(nó mícheart)
Ceapaim go bhfuil "Èirinn a Tuadh" an t-ainm as Gàilig na hAlban,ach níl a fhios agam cén Gaeilge ceart atá air. |
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Aonghus
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Username: Aonghus
Post Number: 10028
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Monday, July 12, 2010 - 04:31 pm: |
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Tuaisceart Éireann
(ach is ráiteas pholaitiúil aon ainm ar an dlínse sin!) |
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Séasán
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Username: Séasán
Post Number: 16
Registered: 06-2010
| | Posted on Monday, July 12, 2010 - 04:44 pm: |
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Tá mé ar aon intinn leatsa faoi sin a Aonghuis. |
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