In this video I'm going to share with you some really useful
verbal nouns that's going to make it easier for you to understand
and create sentences, and don't forget to stay tuned until the end of the video
for two important announcements one i'll be giving you a very useful
acronym or abbreviation to remember these verbal nouns and two
I'll be giving some details about a special video i'm making for my patreon
supporters, so i'll get into that in a little more
detail at the end. Anyway let's get on with it, so verbal
nouns are really useful they are the action part of the sentence
so for example in English
run is the verb but running is the
action of doing it, so our first verbal noun in
irish is ag seasamh, ag seasamh means standing
Tá sé ag seasamh sa toghchán = he is standing in the election
next we have ag athrú, so ag athrú means changing, ag athrú, and this is where
the Irish word for climate change comes from the Irish for climate change is
athrú aeráide, that literally means the changing climate, athrú aeráide
so ag athrú, as an example let's look at this sentence here
Tá an saol ag athrú = life is changing/the times are changing
next we have ag ní, ag ní is washing
for example ag ní a cuid gruaige = washing her hair
ag aithint is recognizing ag aithint (apologies about spelling mistake above)
dlí ag aithint lánúnas = a law recognising cohabitation
ag briseadh is next, so this comes from the irish verb Bris which is to break
ag briseadh means breaking, for example
D'fhógair siad go raibh siad ag briseadh suas = they announced that they were breaking up
ag aimsiú is next so ag aimsiú means
locating or uncovering ag aimsiú, ag aimsiú freagraí = looking for answers
or locating answers ag aimsiú freagraí
ag iompar is carrying, ag iompar, and this is where the Irish words for
pregnant come from, so for example
ag iompar clainne means pregnant but it literally means
carrying a family, ag iompar clainne. Next we have ag rith so this comes from
the irish verb Rith which is to run, ag rith, ag rith means running
Chuaigh sé ag rith sa pháirc = he went running in the park
next then ag tiomáint, so ag tiomáint means driving
Bhí sí ag tiomáint go contúirteach = she was driving dangerously
so let's look at the acronym or abbreviation now that's going
to help you remember these really useful verbal nouns you have to
think of it like this these verbal nouns are used in a
sentence, san abairt, san abairt, so that means
in the sentence in irish if we take the letters from these two words san abairt
we're going to find our verbal nouns, for example
so hopefully this will be a really useful acronym to help you remember
and to help you use these verbal nouns in future
I just want to say again a very big thank you to all my patreon supporters
I really appreciate the support you've given me
it has been such a big help and as a thank you i'm going to be making a
special video just for my patreon supporters and this
will be a video on a new business I set up and
i'm going to show you a little bit about this new business and
how i'm promoting the Irish language within this
business, for example it has an irish name
and I try and use the Irish language in the shop on documents
and on signs and all that kind of stuff so i'll update you more on that in the next video.
So if you enjoyed this please give it a
thumbs up and I'll be back very soon slán go fóill.
so our first verbal noun in Irish is
and my other announcement is about um
Colorado gets its name from spanish meaning red
and it's said to have mean
let's move on then to Colorado, the name Colorado
next we have Solas which means
light and sólás which means comfort
so um (cough)
next we have Solas which means light and Sólás which means comfort
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