Dia duit agus fáilte ar ais, in this video we're going to look at ten
Irish words that are easy to remember if you're a native English speaker, if you
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upload a new video. So back to this video then, the Irish for niece is neacht and the
Irish for nephew is nia and when I was younger I used to get sort of confused
between these two so the easiest way to remember is nia is nephew and it has
3 letters just like a boy has three letters as well. I never had any trouble
remembering the words nia and neacht it was just trying to differentiate the sex
so if we count the number of letters that solves that one there, nia or mo nia is my nephew
Our next word is capall, capall is the Irish for horse
and this should be easy to remember because of the clip clop sounds that a horses
hooves makes when it's struttling along or trotting along, capall
ar mhuin capaill = on horseback.
Our next Irish word is páirc, páirc is easy to remember because it sounds, the English version, sounds like a
park and páirc means field, so I never had any trouble remembering this
because I was able to compare a field to an actual park itself because páirc
sounds very like park in English, páirc pheile = a football field.
Our next word is bog, bog is the Irish for soft and I always found this
very very convenient because I just kept thinking of a bog where we would find
very soft ground and turf cutting and the like would go on there so I always
associated bog with the English word bog where turf cutting takes place
bhí sé bog faoi do lámh = it was soft to touch
Our next Irish word is magadh, this means to mock somebody
to make fun of somebody and I always found this easy enough to remember
because the sound was very similar to the English verb mocking as well
Bhí sé ag magadh fúithi = he was mocking her
Our next word then is blasta
blasta is the Irish word for delicious - blasta
tá an bia iontach blasta = the food is delicious, this is easy to remember because it's
almost like you're saying in English it's a blast or I had a blast in the
restaurant and I always found that relatively easy to remember blasta for delicious
Our next word then is the Irish word for Wales which is
an Bhreatain Bheag, this literally means Little Britain,
an Bhreatain Mhór
is Great Britain, an Bhreatain Mhór, so I always found this slightly peculiar slightly
funny maybe even slightly condescending to the
Welsh nation as well
but that's just the way it is Little Britain, an Bhreatain Bheag - Wales.
Our next Irish word or verb even, is díol and díol is the Irish to sell and I
always found this very easy to remember because when you sell some something to
somebody it's like you're making a deal with them as in when I say that I mean
making a deal the English word, so this was always a great one that I could
easily remember díol = to sell
Tá sé ag díol go maith = it's selling well
Our next Irish word is the Irish word for table which is
bord, and this is a great word easy to remember again because tables
are very often made out of boards anyway especially a timber table anyway so I
always found this convenient in the context of the way it's phrased bord
for table so for example - Tá do dhinnéar ar an mbord = your dinner is on the table
Our next one then is the Irish for gave, thug is the Irish for gave and it's the past tense of
the Irish verb tabhair to give, so for example
thug sé = he gave
and I always found this really easy to remember in spite of the fact that
there's a couple of similar four-letter verbs in Irish beginning with the letter
T like Thóg and Thug but we can get onto those in another video, but anyway I
always found this easy to remember because you would always give somebody a
hug so I gave somebody a hug and that's the way I always remember it so for
example, thug sé barróg mhór di=he gave her a big hug
you can actually see
the word hug, the last 3 letters there
in the past tense of that Irish verb tabhair to give
so thug sé = he gave
easy to remember if you associate with
giving somebody a hug
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let me know in the comment section some Irish words that you find easy to
remember, and just let me know down below I'd be delighted to hear,
thanks a million and I'll talk to you soon, slán go fóill.