Irish Class, June 1, 2009

Rang Gaeilge, 1ú lá Mí na Mheiteamh

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Administrivia

• Next class 6/8 at Loring Park Dunn Bros.
• Last Spring class at Central 6/1
• Winona 7/17-19
• Irish Fair 8/7-9
• First Fall class at Central 9/14

Sentences

1. We will be eating the potato chips.
   Beidh muid (Beimid) ag ithe na mbrioscaí
   prataí..

   brioscaí prataí

   potato chips

   2 nouns, so 2nd is gen.

   In the sentence brioscaí follows the vn, so it is also in gen., and hence eclipsed.

2. We will be eating them.
   Beidh muid (Beimid) á n-ithe..

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   á	“for them”	Plural, hence ithe is eclipsed

3. You [pl.] don’t have to eat the sweets.
   Ní chaiteann sibh na milseáin a ithe.

   a

   “that”

   A vn that could be lenited would be here. Ithe cannot be lenited.

4. You don’t have to eat them.
   Ní chaiteann sibh iad a ithe.

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   iad	them	Used when not next to a noun. Not really an object form, but often looks like one.

   1 and 2 have bare forms of bí “be”.
   3 and 4 are modal forms.

5. Unless you want to.
   Mura maith libh.

   má	if
   mar	like, as, because
   mura	if not, unless
   Mura maith libh	“Unless good with you”	From Mura ba mhaith libh (copula)

   Dialect forms

   mura		C.O.
   mur		Don.
   muna		Muns.
   mara		Cois.

   Mura, 7rl normally eclipse the following word. However, in the example above,
   maith cannot be eclipsed.

   If the word that follows mura (and its variants) begins with a vowel, then it
   becomes murab, 7rl. The -b is the remnant of the conditional copula
   ba.

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