Irish Class, June 30, 2008

Irish Class, June 30, 2008

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We have a class project for the summer: To translate a menu into
Irish. Each of us chose one item. I got:

Minnesota wild rice
stuffed chicken breast

I first reworded the English to
be

Breast of chicken with stuffing of wild rice
from Minnesota

Which I translated
as

Cíoch sicín le buiste ríc fiáin as
Minnesota

Sicín is a type 4 (masculine) noun, so its genitive singular
is the same as the nominative singular.

We played some vocabulary games on various topics:

1. Body Parts
2. Plurals
3. Genitives

Nick then had some corrections for the verb exercise from
two weeks ago.

7. Táim ag (smaoiníonn) ar rothar nua a (ceannaíonn).

   smaoinigh	think, consider
   ceannaigh	buy, purchase

   Táim ag smaoineamh ar rothar nua a cheannach.

   Above uses the verbal noun. Use this if the second verb
   stands alone. Use the conjugate form (below) if it is followed
   by a second subject.

   Táim ag smaoineamh ar rothar nua a ceannaíonn ….

8. D’iarr mé ar m’athair cabhair a (tugann) dom chun an tionscadal a (
   críochnaíonn).

   iarr	ask, request
   tabhair (tugann)	give (v irr)
   cabhair	help
   chun	to, towards
   tionscadal	project

   Tugann has no subject, so use the verbal noun tabhairt
   rather than thug

   D’iarr mé ar m’athair cabhair a thug tabhairt dom chun an tionscadal a
   chríochnú.

9. Sílimse go (feabhsaíonn) an saol in Éirinn nuair a (laghdaíonn)
   an saibhreas amach anseo.

   feabhsaigh	improve, better
   nuair	when, considering that, although
   laghdaigh	lessen, decrease
   saibhreas	riches, wealth

   An saibhreas is the subject of the second clause so
   laghdaíonn is conjugated as laghdóidh, not using the
   verbal noun.

   Sílimse go bhfeabhsóidh an saol in Éirinn nuair a laghdóidh
   an saibhreas amach anseo. (future)

   The future (above) for the first verb feabhsaíonn is
   better than the conditional (below). The conditional usually
   has dá “if”.

   Sílimse go bhfeabhsódh an saol in Éirinn nuair a laghdóidh
   an saibhreas amach anseo. (conditional)

We finished by reading more from
Gaeileoirí.

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