księżyc - Gaelainn

[kevin]

For context, I'm trying to generate an answer to this.

I would translate that question as "Ar imir tú scuais riamh?" if that helps.

[księżycowy]

So níor imreas é would be the correct negative response in Munster then?

[kevin]

Níor imreas (or níor imir in the Caighdéan) is enough if you just want to say no.

[księżycowy]

Thanks!

[linguoboy]

níor imríos í

I don't know if you've gotten to the second conjugation yet, but it includes syncopating verbs ending in a sonorant as well as verbs in -(a)igh.

Like most nouns ending in a slender vowel, scuais is feminine. The object pronoun is optional in responses.

[księżycowy]

I've read the section a little bit, but I'm properly on Lesson IX. Lesson XI has the second conjugation.
I remember the second conjugation is those that are in í, now that you mention it. Thanks for that.

[księżycowy]

So, if I wanted to ask is someone played, say tennis, would I do so like:
An imrír leadóg?
The simple present tense?
Is there anything needed for the object, or is it fine like that?

[linguoboy]

So, if I wanted to ask is someone played, say tennis, would I do so like:
An imrír leadóg?
The simple present tense?
Is there anything needed for the object, or is it fine like that?

No, it's fine as is. Inflection only becomes an issue if there's a verbal noun involved.

[księżycowy]

Thanks again!

You both are a huge help, as always!

[księżycowy]

Knowing how it's been going thus far, I have a feeling I messed up on my lastest response in the Answer Ask game.
I just have a nagging feeling I'm missing stuff, and that Irish would not formulate the question that simply:
An te ann?
"Is it hot there?"

[linguoboy]

Knowing how it's been going thus far, I have a feeling I messed up on my lastest response in the Answer Ask game.

Ordinals proceed the noun, and almost always take the definite article, i.e. An chéad rogha (atá) agam.

The usual Munster form of dara is tarna.

I just have a nagging feeling I'm missing stuff, and that Irish would not formulate the question that simply:
An te ann?
"Is it hot there?"

Not everything is more complicated in Irish!

I would prefer bí here, event though you're talking about a permanent quality. The copula only sounds right to me with a nominal subject, e.g. An te í an aimsir ann?

[księżycowy]

Ordinals proceed the noun, and almost always take the definite article, i.e. An chéad rogha (atá) agam.

The usual Munster form of dara is tarna.

Thanks for that. I wasn't sure where to place the ordinals.
Nor did I know the Munster term for dara. I have only learned the cardinal numbers 1 through 10 so far.

Not everything is more complicated in Irish!

Really? It feels like it sometimes.

I would prefer bí here, event though you're talking about a permanent quality. The copula only sounds right to me with a nominal subject, e.g. An te í an aimsir ann?

So you're suggesting that an bhfuil te ann? sounds better?

[linguoboy]

I would prefer bí here, event though you're talking about a permanent quality. The copula only sounds right to me with a nominal subject, e.g. An te í an aimsir ann?

So you're suggesting that an bhfuil te ann? sounds better?

I am.

I would also prefer "where you are" (san ait go bhfuil tú) to just "there", because I found it a little ambiguous given you'd just mentioned the names of several countries. But IpseDixit seems to have understood your intention regardless.

An ithis an feithid roimhe sin?

Remember that an is the definite article (and that it lenites feminine nouns like feithid). There is no indefinite article in Irish.

[kevin]

So you're suggesting that an bhfuil te ann? sounds better?

I am.

Not an bhfuil sé te ann?

[linguoboy]

So you're suggesting that an bhfuil te ann? sounds better?

I am.

Not an bhfuil sé te ann?

Oops, didn't even notice the sé was missing.

[księżycowy]

Not an bhfuil sé te ann?

Oops, didn't even notice the sé was missing.

I totally forgot it myself!

Remember that an is the definite article (and that it lenites feminine nouns like feithid). There is no indefinite article in Irish.

Just noticed this reply. I'm still trying to get used the the usage of the definate article in Irish. I understand it is used in places where English wouldn't use it. So basically, that was a shot in the dark.

Thanks yet again, guys!

[linguoboy]

Tánn tú t'réis an cluiche a mharú, a chara!

[księżycowy]

De bhrí táim ag scríobh i Gaelainn aonair nó mo cheisteanna?

[linguoboy]

De bhrí táimná fuilim ag scríobh ach i nGaelainn aonair nó de bhrí mo cheisteanna?

Níl aon cheist á cur agat!

[księżycowy]

Feic* anso:

Le rún daingean?

Ach cuirfead aon.

*I'm not sure if that is the proper form. I couldn't exactly decode the chart for chím in the back of TYI. If it even has the information I need to figure it out.