In this video we're going to look at some sentences in the Irish language and
I'm going to translate these sentences and give you some tips on the verbs the
word order and the general structure of these sentences and phrases
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so let's get on to our sentences let's look at these two here first of all
so firstly Chuala mé an scéal faoi Mháire, and the other one
Chuala mé an scéal faoin gcailín, so we'll notice there that they're very similar but
they're slightly different, let's look at the first one first of all so
Chuala mé an scéal faoi Mháire means I heard the story about Mary, let's look at it word by
word so Chuala mé is the past tense of to hear basically, so Chuala comes from
the Irish verb Clois which is to hear mé then is a pronoun for me so it's
saying I heard an scéal the story an scéal, faoi Mháire is about Mary, now Mháire
can be pronounced Mháire as well like a W sound it's no problem
faoi is about as I said but it can also mean, as well as meaning about, it can
also be under so it has that kind of double meaning, so the first phrase
there again- Chuala mé an scéal faoi Mháire = I heard the story about Mary, now let's
look at the second sentence now - Chuala mé an scéal faoin gcailín, so this means I
heard the story about the girl Chuala mé again is the past tense as we
mentioned a few moments ago, it's the past tense of hear, so I heard
an scéal again the story faoin gcailín about the girl
so we'll notice there that faoi has changed to faoin in this stage
that's because faoi means about or under as I said, and faoin with the n
means about the or under the, so we don't say faoi an, because that wouldn't
be correct we put faoi and an together and together they make I suppose you
call it a new word called faoin it's easier to say and it makes for a
more flowing conversation, faoin, that's why it's Chuala mé an scéal faoin gcailín
I heard the story about the girl, faoi on its own as you'll have noticed there in the
first one initiates a séimhiú on Máire
so Máire becomes Mháire, so faoi brings us a séimhiú to
the next word and that's providing the next word can take a séimhiú or a h
and then faoin will initiate an urú which is an eclipse so it's not faoin
cailín it's faoin gcailín, the faoin will bring this urú in front of the
first letter of the following word an urú is also called an eclipse so the
g eclipses the rest of the word there and it's gcailín instead of cailín.
Our next two sentences then Uaireanta cuireann sé isteach orm
Chuir sé isteach go mór orm, so the first one there Uaireanta cuireann sé isteach orm
that means sometimes it bothers me or it annoys me sometimes it bothers me
the second one Chuir sé isteach go mór orm - that means it annoyed me
greatly like the past tense, it bothered me greatly, so let's look at the first
phrase there Uaireanta cuireann sé isteach orm so the first word there is uaireanta, you
might notice the word uair at the start there so that's in reference to time
it's the Irish for time basically or an hour, so uaireanta means sometimes or from
time to time or on occasion, Cuireann is the present tense of the Irish verb Cuir
which is to put, so Cuireann is like present tense so Cuireann sé isteach orm
means it puts inside me or it it puts
something within me it's just the way it comes across in
English but in Irish it's quite normal to have a phrase like that it just
sounds a little bit strange when you translate it into English but as I
always say in the comments section Irish and English are completely different languages
Uaireanta cuireann sé isteach orm = sometimes it annoys me.
so just back there, there so just to go through that word by word uaireanta sometimes cuireann is the
present tense of to put, so cuireann sé it puts present tense, isteach means inside
or going in and orm is the preposition for me
Uaireanta cuireann sé isteach orm sometimes it annoys me
Our next one then - Chuir sé isteach go mór orm
so let's go down through that word by word, Chuir sé that's it put the past tense or it inserted
if you were to translate it directly isteach again means inside or going
in and then go mór means a lot and orm is again the preposition for me so
it's literally saying it put inside a lot, it put inside me a lot
Chuir sé isteach go mór orm, so both of those use the Irish verb Cuir which is to put and
they're both quite handy and convenient phrases anyway
moving on to our next sentence then so here it is
Bhí faoiseamh ar Síle go bhfuair sí míniú ar a tinneas so let's translate that immediately
Sheila was relieved that she got an explanation for her illness so let's go
down through it word by word, firstly Bhí is the past tense of the Irish verb to be
basically of the Irish verb Bí which is to be, so bhí faoiseamh, faoiseamh is
relief, ar Síle that means on Sheila because in Irish feelings are
very much on you or upon you, go bhfuair sí - that she got, so bhfuair there it comes from the
Irish verb Faigh, which is to get it's an irregular verb and that's partly
why it mutates into go bhfuair there, so go bhfuair sí míniú, so that she got an
explanation so míniú is the Irish for an explanation
and it's also the verbal noun for explaining so ag míniú is explaining as
I said comes from the Irish verb Mínigh which is to explain, ar a tinneas then
that means for her illness or for her ailment so ar a means for her so
it's kind of it's relating to the situation she's in, the a there is a
I suppose you call it a possessive pronoun because it's like mo do and then a a
for him and her so this possessive pronoun explains that it's Sheila here
who we're talking about and it's her illness basically tinneas as I said
is ailment or illness or some sickness of some sort
so Bhí faoiseamh ar Síle go bhfuair sí míniú ar a tinneas - Sheila was relieved
that she got an explanation for her illness or for her ailment.
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