i'm going to show you eight ways to start a sentence in irish using present tense verbs
you're going to find this very useful for starting a conversation but also for maintaining a
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so ithim means i eat - ithim
ní ithim is i don't eat
ólaim means i drink
ní ólaim is i don't drink
or literally it means i don't drink only now and again
mothaím means i feel now it could also mean i hear but i'd associate it more with i feel
molaim is next this means i recommend it could
also mean i advise or i praise
so molaim duit is like saying i recommend to you, you might remember my
video on the do prepositions a few weeks ago so duit is literally it just means to you and then
an leabhar is the book an leabhar seo this book & then a léamh is to read
creidim means i believe
it could also mean i understand
daingean there is an interesting word it comes up in
place names a lot actually like dingle in county kerry for example it just means like a stronghold
or a fort and it can be used in this context as well when you're making a conversational sentence
bím is the present tense of the irish verb bí which is to be bím
literally means i am but it means i am as in in terms of an ongoing basis like for example for me
it's perfectly normal to say the following phrase or sentence i do be making videos every week
that might sound a little bit strange to someone stateside but to me it's perfectly normal and
perfectly natural it's probably a little bit of hiberno english that has originally come
from the irish language so it literally means i do be so here's a phrase as well as gaeilge
that means i'm always relaxed here
so ar mo shuaimhneas just means at my ease or in an incredibly relaxed situation
and then anseo is here and i gcónaí is always
so not only is it saying i am relaxed in this place
it's really saying i do be relaxed all the time that i'm in this place whether it's now
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