VOCABULARY Masculine Nouns

buachaill (BOO-uhk*-il) boy capall (KAHP-uhl) horse cosán (kuh-SAW*N) sidewalk

Feminine Nouns

cluas, an chluas (KLOO-uhs, un K*LOO-uhs) ear bó, an bhó(boh, un vwoh) cow bán (baw*n) white gorm (GUH-ruhm) blue buí(bwee) yellow uaine (oo-IN-e) green (for cloth, etc.) dearg (DYAR-uhg) red dubh (doov) black glas (glahs) green (for grass) donn (doun) brown corcra (KOHR-kruh) purple

GRAMMAR

To use "tá" and "is" confidently, you must have a good idea of the conditions under which you use one or the other of these verbs. "Tá" tells where a person or object is and what it is doing (the verbal noun can follow "tá"). "Tá" also serves to describe a person or object by introducing adjectives. For examples of these usages: Táséanseo. He is here. Táséag dul amach. He is going out. Táséfuar. It is cold.

Select "is" when you want to say that a person or object is in a fairly permanent class, or when you want to identify a person or object as being the specific one about whom you are talking. Céardéseo? (kay*rd ay* shuh) What is this? is one question calling for "is". Is boscaé, or: is bosca beagé, are answers. Here are other examples: Is feirmeoir Seán (is fer-im-OH-ir shaw*n) John is a farmer. Is garda an fear sin, that man is a guard. Is fear mór Séamas, James is a big man. An Meiriceánach tú? Are you an American? Nach scoláirísibhse? (nahk* skuh-LAW*-ree SHIV-she), arn't you students?

Note the word order. What the person or thing is comes first, then the person or thing. To give a name to someone, or to say that a person of thing is the specific one, reverse the word order. Examples: Cétusa? (kay* TU-suh), Who are you? Is míse Máirín. Nímíse Bríd. Céhésin? Who is that? Isésin Brian. Níhésin Séamas. Céhíseo? Who is this? Isísin Máire. Níhíseo Nóra. Iséseo mo nuachtán (shay* shuh muh NOO-uhk*-taw*n), this is my paper. Níhésin an nuachtán eile (nee hay* shin un NOO- uhk*-taw*n EL-e), that is not the other paper. Notice the difference in word order in: Is bordésin, that is a table. Isésin an bord (shay* shin un bohrd), that is the table. We will have more practice with this next week.

Irish Lesson 24

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