In this video we're going to look at two sets of Irish verbs that commonly get
confused with each other, they are D'fhéach which means looked, Chonaic which means
saw and Thug and Thóg, Thug means gave and Thóg means took, so we'll be talking about
the differences I'll be explaining these differences and I'll also give you some
tips as to how to avoid confusion between these verbs, so let's start
D'fhéach means looked
and Chonaic means saw, so D'fhéach mé = I looked Chonaic mé = I saw
the easy way to avoid confusion is to remember that D'féach starts with letter D
and looked ends with the letter D, Chonaic starts and ends with the letter C and the
letter C is important because if we think of the English verb to see that's
what we're talking about here, saw, the past tense of see, so if you associate the
C's with Chonaic and the D's with D'fhéach it can help avoid any mix-up hopefully, well that's my tip anyway.
D'fhéach sí ar na réaltaí thuas san aer = she looked at the stars up in the sky
Chonaic siad an bháisteach ag titim = they saw the rain falling
our next two verbs that people sometimes get mixed up with is
Thug and Thóg so Thug means gave and Thóg can mean took, raised, hoisted, lifted or
built so the easy way to remember Thug is think of a hug that you give somebody
like an emotional embrace a hug, that would be something that you would have
given somebody so you gave somebody a hug, you wouldn't you wouldn't take a
hug from somebody generally and that's important in terms of remembering Thug
because Thug is used to say you gave somebody something so for example
Thug sé barróg mhór di = he gave her a big hug
The english word hug is actually in the Irish verb Thug it's hiding in plain sight you could see
it there the last 3 letters h - u - g so hopefully that can help you to
remember that Thug means gave if you associate a hug with it.
Thóg then as I said it has a lot of meanings it could mean took or lifted
or hoisted or built, constructed, if we take the word Thóg you can see there
that there's a fada, there's a fada over the letter o so what you can do to
make Thóg easy to remember is think of it this way, you could say that the
fada has been raised above the o or is lifted or hoisted above the o, or it
has been built above the o, so that might help you associate that then
with something that's built or constructed or raised or lifted, so
let's move on to some sample sentences then with Thug and Thóg
Chuala mé an freagra feargach a thug sé = I heard the angry response he gave
Thóg an fear seic as a phóca = the man took a cheque from his pocket
Thóg siad balla íseal = they built a low wall or they built a small wall
Thóg siad a bpáistí = they raised their children
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