Dia daoibh agus fáilte ar ais go Gaeilge i mo chroí
And if you are knew here, hello and welcome
Today we are going to be taking a look at how to ask and answer questions in the past tense
and we will also be covering this in the irregular verbs
now, if you haven't seen my two videos before on how to use the past tense
and also I have another video on the irregular verbs in the past tense
I highly recommend watching those before watching this
first of all, when it comes to the irregular verbs in the past tense
When you ask a question with them, the word you use before the verb is 'ar'
you might recognise 'ar', it's the preposition 'on' but it's used in the past tense for questions
after you have 'ar', if the verb takes lenition , you add lenition
if the verb takes a D casú or D apostrophe, you drop that.
so I'm going to give you some examples
now let's take a verb beginning with a consonant, ok?
Now to put verbs in the past that begin with a consonant, you add a 'h'
or lenition, after the first letter
the example I'm going to use is 'mol' which can mean praise or recommend
I'm just going to use this simple sentence for an example