in this video we're going to look at the possessive pronouns in irish a possessive pronoun
is when you are describing something as belonging to someone so for example her shoe his bag
my dog things like that we're going to look at how this works in the irish language
and we're starting right now
so of all let's look at the basic personal
pronouns and we'll go from there you'll see them here on the left
sibh means you as in a group of you more than one person
now here's the possessive pronouns now
so basically it works like this in irish mé means me but mo means mine in irish
tú is you that's the basic personal pronoun there on the left and do means yours as in
something is belonging to you in your possession then the same rule applies as we go down a and a
are for him and her as in belonging to him belonging to her ár is like ours bhur is like
yours more than one person and a again is in relation to something belonging to them
now for the first 3 here that is mo do a, that means mine yours and his like belonging to him
when the first letter after the possessive pronoun is a consonant then a séimhiú is
placed between the 1st & the 3ed letters as you'll see here on the first example for mo
mo mhála my bag so a h or a séimhiú it's called is placed here just after the m
and that's the rule there when something is belonging to me as in mo the same with do so
do bhróg that means your shoe a séimhiú was added there & a which is in relation to something
belonging to him a male let's say his dog for example as you'll see here a mhadra
his dog now when we're talking about a female or her there is no séimhiú in relation to the word
that follows the possessive pronoun for her which is a so her foot just as it would be normally
a cos
her foot now the next 3 here ár bhur & a, they mean ours yours as in more than one person
and belonging to them as in theirs and that's the last one there a so let's say our cat
ár gcat so you'll see there that the first letter there is g that's an urú
and when we're talking about something belonging to us as in ár an arú is placed there as the first
letter before the word and the urú for c is a g so that's why it's ár gcat the same with bhur
so for example your shoes yours as in a group of you more than one person vor
bhur mbróga
the m there is the urú & that's placed before the b, and the last one then a gcosa
that means their feet a gcosa that takes an urú and the urú for the c as we've seen with
cat up above there is a g so a gcosa means that the urú is telling us that we're talking about
their feet rather than him that's how you differentiate whether it's belonging to
her or whether it's belonging to him or them so let's go down through them again
now you must be aware that this is the rule only when the first letter
after the possessive pronoun is a consonant so you'll see there with mo mhála the m is
a consonant so this is only in relation to situations where the first letter is
a consonant it's different when the first letter is a vowel and we'll look at that in more detail
in a separate video at some point in the future
so let's look at some sample sentences now and we're
going to start with the use of this word here in the following three sample sentences tuismitheoirí
that means parents so you'll see when we're talking about her parents
the word will undergo no change tuismitheoirí will stay the same when we're talking about his
parents it will change to thuismitheoirí we'll add a séimhiú and when we're talking about their parents
we will be adding an urú and it'll be a dtuismitheoirí
so because we're talking about a female here
her parents that means tuismitheoirí does not take a séimhiú/urú it just stays the same
so this little phrase here ties in nicely with our previous video on the irish preposition dom because in the
previous video we learned that dó means to him/for him so thug a thuismitheoirí an-mhuinín dó means
his parents gave lots of confidence to him now we know it's a him a male because it's
a thuismitheoirí, the a takes a séimhiú (h)
and therefore we know that we're talking about his parents a male
so a dtuismitheoir there means that we're talking about their parents
as in them and that's why it takes an urú there
and that's how we can differentiate it from him or her here in this phrase the addition
of an urú that's the d there before the t means we're talking about their parents
so the key word here is seans and that's what it's like on its own
and because we're talking about my chance mo takes a séimhiú that's why it's
mo sheans
so dícheall is the key word there and that means best/diligence & that takes an
urú here so therefore we know we're talking about us as in plural as in a group of us
in our next two phrases we'll be using the words cóta & cótaí to mean a coat & coats
so because it's do chóta that means it takes a séimhiú because do initiates a h or
or séimhiú and h is the séimhiú that gets placed after the c
so bhur here
means yours as in a group of you and that's why we have the plural there of cóta we have
cótaí & cótaí takes an urú that's the g that's placed before the c because an urú is
used when we're talking about bhur or yours as in a group of you.
so i hope this video
helped to simplify this aspect of irish grammar if you found it useful don't forget to
give it a thumbs up and i'll be back soon with another video go raibh míle maith agat agus slán tamall.