Irish Class. January 7, 2008

Irish Class, January 7, 2008

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Notes for a scéal, although I only used the first
two sentences in the conversational part of class

Tá orm strus mór ag obair. Tá agam bainisteoir olc. Is
tíoránach suarach é. Is fuath le na hoibrithe é. Teastaíonn post nua
uaim b’fhéidir

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We played a couple rounds of 20 question (Who am I), with Nick
being the subject–some particular public figure. It became clear
that Nick sees a lot of People magazine and its kin than
the rest of us.

fear gorm	black man (race). Lit. blue man	cf. Fórsaí gorma, “black forces” from December 3
An bhfuil tú beo	Are you alive?

Then he did a couple exercises where he described a
scene as Gaeilge and we tried to draw a picture of it.

caitheamh	wear, use, consumption	m1
leiceann	cheek	m1
troig	foot	f2
garraí	garden	m4
bláth	flower, blossom	m3 pl -anna
lá gréine	sunny day
grian	sun	f2 gs gréine
grianmhar	sunny
spéir	sky, air	f2
scamall	cloud	m1
Tá mé i mo shuí.	I am [in my] sitting.

We talked about reading a suitably simple book. The current
candidate is Gaeilgeoirí, by Antoine Ó Flartharta.

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The Genitive case–another look

Usage

1.	With two nouns together, e.g. ainm fir, “a man’s name”.
2.	After the ag [verbal noun] construct. Actually the same as above: The verbal noun is a noun. Tá mé ag ithe feola. I am eating meat g. of feoil ag caitheamh amsire spending time g. of aimsire ag imirt peile playing football g of peil
3.	After roinnt “some” neart “plenty” mórán “many” E.g. roinnt aimsire “some time”
4.	Prepositional Phrases that are followed by the genitive ar feadh throughout (a time period) ar fud throughout place ar son for, on behalf of tar éis after i lar in the center i rith during time deireadh end Examples i rith an lae during the day deireadh seachtaine weekend

We then when through parts of the genitive case
worksheet from December 3. The idea was to look at
the various nouns, classify them by observed characteristics, and from that
to form the correct genitive. As with any real language, there are exceptions,
but this works most of the time.

First Declension – firinscneach

• End in a broad consonsant (Exceptions -lann, -óg)
• Nominative plurals are formed by slenderizing the final consonant.
• Genitive singular is the same as the nominative plural
• masculine–m1 in the dictionaries

Examples

fear	ainm fir
bord	méid boird
oileán “ïsland”	ainm oileáin
ospidéal	ospidéail
corp	coirp
samradh “summer”	samraidh

Second Declension – baninscneach

• End in a slender consonsant, or -lann, -óg
• Genitive singular formed by adding -e. If necessary, the final consonant is slenderized.
• feminine–f2 in the dictionaries

Examples

bialann	méid bialainne
uaire	i rith uaire
seachtain	i rith seachtaine
fuinneog	méid fuinneoige
sraid	méid sraide
cill “church”, “churchyard”	cille
maidin	maidine

We skipped the Third declension–maybe next week.

Fourth Declension

• Ends in a vowel or in -ín
• Genitive singular is identical to the nominative singular
• Could be either masculine or feminine–m4 or f4 in the dictionaries.

Examples

siopa	m	méid siopa
cailín	m	ainm cailín
bia	m	méid bia
oíche	f	i rith oíche
uisce	m	méid uisce
poitín	m	méid poitín

We did not get to Fifth Declension and irregular nouns.