I'm going to show you a great way to increase your fluency and confidence in Irish by just adding a
bit of variety to the way you say certain things for example let's look at this word here this is
ól that's the Irish verb to drink, the past tense is D'ól me I drank d'ól mé the verbal noun
that's the action part of doing something is ag ól so that means drinking ag ól
and the verbal adjective to say something has already done is ólta
ólta so that means drunk as in something is gone or something is consumed but it can also
mean the state you get into after drinking some alcoholic beverages let's say throughout this
video I'll be linking in with the Irish verb bí which is very handy very flexible of course
bhí mé ag ól all that means I was drinking & then d'ól means I drank so if you look
at those two sentences there they essentially mean the same thing but you're using a slightly
different way to express yourself let's look at some more sample sentences now
so you'll see there by being aware of D'ól ag ól and ólta you can increase your fluency
and increase your confidence in both spoken and written Irish moving on to this verb here
which is mínigh means to explain the past tense is mhínigh mé I explained
the verbal noun is ag míniú that is the action of explaining ag míniú
and then the adjective is mínithe so mínithe means explained
so if you take these last three examples there
using the verb mínigh we are essentially saying the same thing but by being aware
of the past tense the verbal noun and the verbal adjective you are giving yourself the
ability to add some variety to your speech and therefore increase your fluency which is a very
good habit to get into when you are learning a language let's look at this verb here tosaigh
tosaigh is to start or to begin, the past tense is thosaigh mé I started, the verbal noun
bhí mé ag tosú I was starting so ag tosú there is the verbal noun of starting
and then the adjective tosaithe that means something has already started or begun you'll notice
there that the basic verb tosaigh looks quite similar to mínigh the basic verb ends in igh
so you're going to notice some similarities between the two verbs Jose she exalt oil
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