in this video I'm going to show you an easy way to say that you want something or that you need
something in Irish in order to do this you need to be familiar with the Irish word ó, ó just means
from so from something or from someone let's look at that in a little bit more detail now these are
the prepositional pronouns that originate from the Irish word ó let's go down to them 1 by 1
so if we go to the first one there uaim that's
literally a coming together of ó + mé and then that turns into uaim so you wouldn't say
ó mé because that wouldn't sound right it'd be a bit cumbersome you just say uaim
so you have 1 word for it instead of 2 words as you'd have in English & then the
next one then uait that's like ó + tú & then that just turns into uait which makes it easier to say
and easier to read and the same goes for the rest of them as you look down through the list there
look at these questions here it's important to be aware of these questions because these could
be the start of the conversation cad atá uait?=what do you want/what do you need?
cad atá uaibh? that also means
what do you want or what do you need but if you look over here you'll see that
uaibh is you but as in a group of you plural more than one person so it's good
to know these two questions so you can ask them and so you can understand them
cad atá uait and cad atá uaibh - what do you want/need?
so here's how it works if you want to say I want something in
Irish then you start with the Irish word tá that means you're talking about the present tense tá
the next thing you say then is whatever it is you want or whatever it is you need
after that then you put in the appropriate prepositional pronoun
so uaim refers to something that I want & then uait it would be something that you want
you can also then put any extra information at the end of the sentence extra information could be
words like please or maybe a location that gives more substance and more information to whatever
it is you're saying let's look at some samples now that's going to help illustrate this in a good way
so again we're starting with tá which means we're talking about the present tense currently
and then we're putting in the thing that we want or need and that's the chicken sandwich
ceapaire le sicín and then after that we have the appropriate prepositional pronoun which is
uaim which refers to the fact that I want a chicken sandwich and then the extra
information at the end is más é do thoil é which means please or if you please next
so again tá means present tense and then cabhair is what we need or what we want which
is help and then uaim is that I need help and then the extra information is in the garden
sa ghairdín
so again tá is the present tense, mo chuid airgid is the thing that we want or need
uaim is that it's to do with me I want as in my money let's say
and then the extra information at the end is ar ais which means back
you may also hear this phrase from time to time ag teastáil
that's just another way to say that someone needs something or someone wants something for example
ag teastáil is basically
a verbal noun and it originates from the Irish verb teastaigh which is to want
or to need something so the verbal noun of teastaigh is ag teastáil that's the action
part of wanting or needing something so let's look back at that sentence there
tá is the present tense so we're talking about something that she needs now as in currently
the thing that she wants or needs then is next that's a good meal or a good feed whatever
the next thing then is we're going to be referring to her so ag teastáil uaithi so uaithi is
the prepositional pronoun which refers to a female and that's her and it literally means
the needing/the wanting that's like the action thing like I said is from her
ag teastáil uaithi - from her
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