Irish Class, October 5, 2009

Rang Gaeilge, an 5ú lá Mí Dheireadh Fómhair 2009

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Listening exercise: Answer the question using pronoun forms

Prototype:
A mbeadh sibh ag glanadh an bhoird?
Beidh, beidh muid á ghlanadh.

• bord is in the genitive because it is the object of a vn.
• ghlanadh lenited because á refers to a singular masculine noun.

1. An mbeidh na buachaillí ag péinteáil an tí?
   Bheid, beidh siad á phéinteáil.

2. An bhfuil an doras ag bualadh na fuinneoige?
   Tá, tá sé á bualadh.

   • fuinneog is in gen. sing.—object of vn.
   • bualadh “hitting” is not lenited because
     fuinneog is feminine.

3. Nach bhfuil d’athair ag oscailt na fuinneoge?
   Níl, níl sé á hoscailt.

   • hoscailt because fuinneog is feminine.

4. An raibh an muinteoir ag ceartú bhur
   bhfabhalscéalta?
   Bhí, bhí sé á gceartú.

   • gceartú because of plural.

   ceartú

   correcting

5. An mbeadh sibh ag ithe milseán?
   Beidh, beidh muid á n-ithe.

   milseán

   sweets

   mass noun, hence plural

Briathra Neamhrialta “Irregular verbs” — faigh “to get” arís

From the Official Class Page:

So.. faigh uses two stems. whenever there’s a particle present, such as ‘an’,’go’,’ní’,’nach’, etc., the ‘faigh-‘ stem is used. That means you won’t see a particle in front of ‘gheobh-‘

We would expect lenition after ‘n’, but we find eclipsis -"Ní bhfaighidh" instead of "*Ní fhaighidh".

As Irish will be Irish, there is a notable exception to the exception in the present tense: "ní fhaigheann", in which case the rule comes back to bite us.

The "gheobh-" stem is permanently lenited.

Here are some examples from the range of pronunciations we went over.

• An bhfaighidh – [a why-a], [a wee-a], [a wee]
• Gheobhaidh – [yo-a], [yo-fa], [yow]

We’ll be trying to tackle at least one irregular verb each class time. It’s important that we know these.

Briathra Neamhrialta “Irregular verbs” — Beir
“to bear, catch, bring, grasp”

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