in this video i'm going to share with you some really useful phrases and i'm also going to
give you a valuable tip on how to create more and better phrases in the irish language this is going
to be done by being aware of and adjusting verbal nouns a verbal noun is the action part of a word
or in other words the "ing" part so in english go is the verb but going is the verbal noun
in irish téigh is the verb to go and ag dul is going so if we just drop the ag we are then left
with dul which now no longer means going instead it means to go as long as we phrase it properly
for example
so we don't use ag dul there because that would translate to i had to going home which would be wrong
and wouldn't look right so by saying bhí orm dul abhaile we are saying i had to go home the dropping
of the ag here means we are saying to go instead of going let's look at some more examples now
so staidéar is to study ag staidéar is studying so
by just dropping the ag we are left with to study in this phrase next
so ábalta siúl means able to walk ábalta rith able to run the verbal nouns would be the
following ag siúl walking ag rith running and these all originate from the following verbs
siúil which is to walk and rith which is to run
so ábalta análú is able to breath ag análú then would
be the verbal known breathing ag análú and these all originate from the irish verb análaigh
which is to breath
so the verbal noun here is ag éalú which is
escaping ag éalú and this originates from the irish verb éalaigh which is to escape
so the verbal noun here is ag canadh which is singing ag canadh and
as you will have seen we just dropped the ag to make it into to sing so ag canadh is
singing and this all originates from the irish verb can which is to sing can
so i hope you found this video useful and informative if you did please give it a thumbs
up and don't forget to let me know down in the comment section some of your phrases that you can
use using this technique of dropping the ag so thanks for watching and i'll see you soon slán tamall.