in this video i'm going to show you how to create the modh coinníollach version
of an irish verb the modh coinníollach is the conditional tense or the conditional
mood and is used to describe how you would do something subject to certain conditions
in this video i will just be focusing on the me part so how i would do something if
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i have made another video on the modh coinníollach as well i did that a few weeks ago
and so that will tie in nicely with this i'll leave a link in the description if you would like
to check that out so the first thing to notice is that the modh coinníollach is very similar to the
past tense it's going to look remarkably similar if we take the irish verb bris which is to break
bris the past tense is bhris mé i broke the modh coinníollach version you can see in red there is
bhrisfinn so the first half of that word is exactly the same as the past tense of the
irish verb which is often the case when it comes to the modh coinníollach another thing you might
notice there as well is that there is a distinct lack of pronouns for me in the modh coinníollach
so if you look at bhrisfinn there in the red writing there's no mé there's no mise
nothing like that it's just bhrisfinn so now that we've established a few basics let's look at some
key points that's going to help you understand how to transform a verb into the modh coinníollach
so which ending do you put on a verb in the modh coinníollach there's a few things we
have to figure out first is the verb broad or slender and does it have one or two syllables
these are the two key questions we need to ask and then once we answer those we can go on to decide
which ending to put on it let's take the irish verbs bog and scaoil so bog is to move and scaoil
is to loosen or unlock so you'll notice there that bog and scaoil it only takes one syllable to say
them one syllable that's why we're going to choose between this ending f a i n n or f i n n that is
because they are one-syllable verbs so in irish the vowels a o and u are considered broad vowels
the vowels i and e are considered slender vowels so if we take the verb bog there the last vowel
well the only vowel really is o so that means that that is broad and the o there makes it broad so
that then is going to link into this ending f a i n n that's the broad ending the one just
underneath it there f i n n that's the slender ending scaoil as i said is to loosen or unlock
the last vowel there is a slender vowel that is i and that makes this slender so we go with
the slender ending then at the end f i n n will go at the end of that so it'll be bhogfainn and scaoilfinn
beannaigh is to bless and smaoinigh is to think beannaigh to bless smaoinigh to think
beannaigh and smaoinigh are two syllable words two syllable words or two syllable verbs i should say
and that's why we're going to choose between these endings óinn or eoinn pronounced "owen"
as well so these are the two types of endings for a two-syllable verb the vowels again the
broad vowels a o and u for beannaigh this means that beannaigh is broad so what we do with with
this is when it comes to beannaigh and smaoinigh we'll notice there that they end in aigh and
igh so what we have to do is we have to get rid of the aigh and the igh because if we left them there
everything would be slender because the last vowel is i there in everything so you have to remove the
aigh and the igh and that way you're left then with the root of the verb which is as you can see there
beann and smaoin and they're the root of the verbs and we then choose what vowel
is the last vowel there in beann it's a of course and smaoin it's i so that means beann
is broad and smaoin is slender and they would have these endings then bheannóinn i would bless and
smaoineoinn i would think so here's a list of the four verbs now in the modh coinníollach bhogfainn
i would move scaoilfinn i would loosen or unlock bheannóinn i would bless smaoineoinn i would think
look how similar they are to the past tense of the same verb bhog mé i moved scaoil mé i loosened
bheannaigh mé i blessed smaoinigh mé i taught so very very similar there especially the first half
of the verbs. The wonderful Molly McHale from Gaeilge i mo chroí has made a wonderful video
a few weeks ago on how to put endings on verbs in the future tense so that's a video that i think is
going to complement this one very well and if you would like to check that out i'm going to leave a
link in the description don't forget to check out Molly's fantastic instagram page as well.
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