Irish class, April 7, 2008

Irish class, April 7, 2008

The first exercise was to take three scrambled sentences from an article
in Lá and put them back in order, without using our dictionaries.

The general form is:

1. Verb
2. Subject or subject Phrase. The noun will be in the nominative case.
3. One of more of:
   • Direct object
   • Preposition phrase
   • Adverbial Phrase
4. Possibly a dependent clause. Look for go, nach or a+verbal noun. Then analyze as above.

It is a lot harder than it sounds, after step 1.

1. éirí­ as Taoiseach phost D’fhógair mbeadh sé ag a ar 6 Aibreán an

   Vocabulary

   D’fhógair	annnounced (p. of fógair)
   mbeadh	would be(subj. of bí­, pron. “mukh”
   a phost	his job
   ag éirí­	leaving (here), rising, become. vn. of éirí­gh
   as	out (prep.)
   ag éirí­ as a phost	leaving his job

   Notes: ar and as are prepositions,

   D’fhógair an Taoiseach go mbeadh ag éirí­ as a phost ar 6 Aibreán.
   The Taoiseach announced that he would be leaving his job on April 6.

2. Lucht é Bertie an Oibre gur Taoiseach maith Ahern Dúirt

   Vocabulary

   ceannaire	leader
   gur	was (dependent clause copula)
   lucht	group (of people)
   obair, gs oibre	work
   Lucht Oibre	Labour Party

   Dúirt ceannaire an Lucht Oibre gur Taoiseach maith Bertie Ahern.
   
   “The leader of the Labour Party said that Bertie Ahern was a good Taoiseach.”

3. Ahern náisiún seirbhí­s Rinne don agus stát don iomlán

   Vocabulary

   don ← do-an	to the

   Rinne Ahern seirbhí­s don stát agus don náisiún iomlán.
   “Ahern did service to the state and to the entire naion.”

Next came a listening exercise.

For the rest of class we worked on plurals, based on a handout Nick gave us.

Nick also gave us a handout on cardinal directions.