In this video I'm going to share with you some grammar tips to do with
counting nouns between 1 and 10, before we start a great book that could help
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anyway back to this video on counting
nouns between 1 and 10, let's look at the basic way of counting first
a haon is one
a dó is two a trí a ceathair a cúig a sé a seacht a hocht a naoi and a deich
So that's the basic way of counting 1 to 10, it's going to be very similar when
you count nouns but you're going to notice some differences let's look at
this word here first of all bád, that's the Irish word for boat - bád,
if we're going to be counting boats here's how it's going to look
aon bhád amháin
dhá bhád, trí bhád, ceithre bhád, cúig bhád, sé bhád, seacht mbád, ocht mbád, naoi mbád, deich mbád
so you'll notice there that there are certain
similarities and differences when you compare counting nouns to the basic form
for example bád keeps its singular form, so what I mean by that is we don't
say dhá bádaí or we don't say dhá báid, it just keeps singular form with the
addition of a h which we'll get to in a minute, so that's the first thing
the second thing is most of the numbers when we're counting the noun bád
there, most of the numbers are the same as the original simple
basic form that I listed out at the start but two notable differences there are
two and four so you'll notice that it's not dó bád or dó bhád, it's
dhá bhád, and four as well it's not ceathair bhád or ceathair bád its ceithre bhád
so those two are always going to be different when you're counting nouns the
rest of them are more or less the same as their original form but not
two and four so for example a dó is two but two nights is dhá oíche
a ceathair is four but four books is ceithre leabhar
Another thing you'll notice there is between the numbers 1 & 6 the noun undergoes what
you would call lenition that's the addition of a h there
so it's aon bhád amháin dhá bhád as you can see there but if it's between 7 and 10
the word bád becomes eclipsed with the addition of an M there, the reason for
that is because bád starts with a consonant B and because the noun
starts with a consonant it undergoes this lenition
between 1 and 6 and an eclipse between 7 and 10
If it were to start, the noun
I mean was to start with a vowel it would not undergo any lenition
between 1 and 6, so for example dhá úll is two apples
trí óstán = three hotels
that's because the u&o are vowels
between 7 and 10 as I said an eclipse happens if it's a consonant if the noun begins with a
consonant and the same if it begins with a vowel, so vowels are eclipsed
between 7-10, so for example it would be seacht n-úll, seven apples
ocht gcupán = eight cups, so in summary nouns keep their singular form
the numbers when you're counting between one and ten is very similar to the basic
counting system with the exception of two and four, consonants can undergo
lenition and eclipse but only vowels get eclipsed
my question for you which I'd like you to answer in the comment section is what
words are completely exempt from undergoing lenition or eclipse, let me
know in the comments section I'll be interested to see your answers, and if
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slán tamall.