February 25, 2008
Irish Class, February 25, 2008.
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We started with some number drills–
counting objects.
This was a review of material from <!– 9/24 –>
9/24 and
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10/1.
When you use plural forms for counting you start at three, not two. In
Irish two takes the singular.
| aon bhád amháin | one boat | [or] |
| bád amháin | one boat | |
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| uan | lamb | m1 |
| naoi n-uan | nine lambs | n- eclipses a vowel |
| capall | horse | m1 |
- m1 nouns use the same form for the genitive singular and the nominative
plural (slenderize the final consonant). - In Munster initial bh- is pronounced /v/ even as a broad consonant,
instead of /w-/.
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Next was a review of
body parts
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There was some discussion of on-line resources.
Beo was particularly recommended.
With four students in the class, we split into two pairs. Each pair was given a theme for a dialog to compose. We then read them and the other pair had to figure out who we were and what we were talking about. My partner was JS, who had her notes from last September’s all class exercise on curses to add some spice to our contribution, a scene in a restaurant between a waiter and a customer.
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