Irish Class, March 23, 2009

Rang Gaeilge, 23ú lá mí Márta 2009

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Fadas: áéíóúÁÉÍÓÚ

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Wes handed out copies of the word puzzle for those of us (like me) who
couldn’t make it out to last week’s pub night.

Vocabulary

cat	cat
seilide	snail
gabhar	goat	m1
muc	pig
nathair	snake
beach	bee	f2
luchóg	mouse
bó	cow
tarbh	bull
ulchabhán	owl	m1
cuil	fly	f2
béar	bear
capall	horse
caora	sheep	f
iolar	eagle	m1
portán	crab	m1
damhán alla	spider
madra	dog	m4
cearc	hen
féileacán	butterfly
coinín	rabbit	m4
iasc	fish	m1
dhá ainmhi is fiche	22 animals
folach	hiding	m1
cúl	back
leathanach	page, sheet	m1 gs leatanaigh
faigh	get, find
i gceist	in question
Tugaigí aire	take care	pl imp of tabhair

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Listening exercise.

1. A: Céard atá tú ag ól? Ba mhaith liom deoch
   a cheannach dhuit.
   What are you drinking? I would like to
   buy you a drink

   [Note modal construction]

2. B: An i ndáiríre atá tú? Agus thusa an t-am
   ar fad i do stiocaire!
   Are you being serious? And you are a
   tightwad all the time!

   dáiríre	seriousness	m4
   An i ndáiríre atá tú?	Is it seriousness that you are?	[lit]
   an t-am ar fad	the whole time
   an lá ar fad	the whole day
   stiocaire	cheapskate, tightwad

3. A: Nach bhféadfadh aon duine a bheith ag ceiliúradh anois
   is aríst?
   Isn’t it possible for a person to be celebrating
   once in a while?

   Nach bhféadfadh…	Isn’t is possible…?	/nax ve:dax/
   ag ceiliúradh	celebrating
   anois is aríst	now and again

4. B: Bhuel, Cén rud atá agatsa le ceiliúradh inniu?
   
   Well, what thing do you have to celebrate today?

   means no mutation.

   le	[in order] to	(here). Note, le

5. A: Is inniu an lá ar a bhfuil ortsa d’iasacht a aisíoc
   atá agatsa uaim.
   Today is the day on which you have to pay
   back the loan you have from me

   ortsa	you have to	emphatic
   iasacht	loan
   d’iasacht	your loan	←do iasacht
   íoc	pay	v
   aisíoc	pay back, refund	v
   uaim	from me

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Some notes on the preposition ‘le’

• It takes the form ‘leis‘ before the definite articles ‘an’ and ‘na’.

  leis an gcarr	with the car
  leis na carranna (carraí)	with the cars

• It takes the form ‘lena’ when combined with the
  possessive ‘a’ (his/her/their).

  lena charr	with his car	(contrast leis “with him”
  lean carr	with her car	(contrast léi “with her”
  lena gcarr	with their car

• ‘lenár‘ in combination with ‘ár’, “with
  our”.

Some other prepositions ending in vowels behave similarly:
ina, faoina, óna, trína.

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At the end of the class we looked briefly at the exercises for the fable, ‘An Leon agus an Luchóg‘.

féadfaidh	will be possible
fainic	beware
corr-	odd, occasional	always with hyphen
an gcorr-ghaiste	the odd trap
domhan	world, earth	m1
oiread	quantity, amount
iarracht	attempt, try
Tar i gcabhair ar dhuine	Come to the aid of someone
rugadh	was caught, born	/rugu:/ past aut of beir

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