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| | Posted on Saturday, January 29, 2011 - 07:53 am: |     |
Is the Genitive Case used when you use the possessive pronoun...the name of my school...ainm mo scoil or ainm mo scoile or what?? Or is this even classified as Genitive? |
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Lughaidh
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Username: Lughaidh
Post Number: 3812
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, January 29, 2011 - 11:38 pm: | |
You use the genitive case when you have to ; possessive adjectives don't stop nor trigger the use of the genitive case, the use of the genitive case doesn't depend on possessive adjectives but on whether there's a noun that governs your noun or not.
Ainm mo scoile, because it is "the name OF my school" or "my school'S name".
And you say "ainm scoile", a school'S name, or the name OF a school. No possessive but you still use the genitive because there is some possession link between ainm and scoil.
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Driftwood814
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Username: Driftwood814
Post Number: 36
Registered: 12-2008
| | Posted on Monday, January 31, 2011 - 01:27 pm: | |
GRMMA, a Lughaidh! I have been wondering about that also. Yours was the clearest, most concise and easiest to understand explanation about genitives that I have ever read. Into the grammar notes it goes. (nótaí gramadaí - is that right?)
Tá fáilte roim nach aon cheartú! |
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Lughaidh
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Username: Lughaidh
Post Number: 3817
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 01, 2011 - 07:57 am: | |
Thanks, I'm happy if it's clear :-)
Yeah "nótaí gramadaí" is right :-)
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