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  • 24-09-2014 6:14pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 68 ✭✭mayogirlie1


    How to say they have a football pitch?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 127 ✭✭migozarad


    Tá páirc sacair/pheil acu.


  • Registered Users Posts: 83 ✭✭Oakboy


    There's a few ways you can say it, mar is gnáth!

    Tá páirc/báinseach/faiche peil/caid acu

    :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 88 ✭✭Nua


    Páirc peile/páirc imeartha - football pitch or just pitch for playing games


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,145 ✭✭✭Poll Dubh


    Tá páirc peile acu


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,698 ✭✭✭Gumbi


    Poll Dubh wrote: »
    Tá páirc peile acu

    I'm fairly sure the caol ending of páirc lenites the following genitive.

    Tá páirce pheile acu.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,145 ✭✭✭Poll Dubh


    focal.ie has 'páirc peile' - peil would be lenited if it was adjectival.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,145 ✭✭✭Poll Dubh


    focloir.ie has 'páirc pheile' though!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭ Faith Tiny Curl


    I always heard páirc peile.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,698 ✭✭✭Gumbi


    I just noticed (and can't edit now) I wrote páirce. This was a typo. I meant páirc pheile. Of course the grammar still has to be confirmed as I'm not 100% sure of it. But I thought the rule was that a caol ending will lenite a succeeding genitive.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭gaiscioch


    He was born. Rugadh é? Or Rugadh sé? I suspect the former, but I've seen the latter. When can both correctly be used?

    An Cabhán a rugadh é = In Cavan he was born. But can you start that sentence with Rugadh é or Rugadh sé?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 162 ✭✭djerk


    you could say 'As Cábhán a rugadh é', 'Rugadh i gCabhán é', 'Is as Cábhán é' etc

    havent heard rugadh se myself but connemara irish here


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,698 ✭✭✭Gumbi


    djerk wrote: »
    you could say 'As Cábhán a rugadh é', 'Rugadh i gCabhán é', 'Is as Cábhán é' etc

    havent heard rugadh se myself but connemara irish here

    The first one doesn't make any sense to me. From Cavan he was born?


  • Registered Users Posts: 162 ✭✭djerk


    it would be just short form of 'Is as..', i suppose more suited to formal speaking or short hand response to a question about where an individual was born

    eg, (Is) As Cábhán a rugadh 'ainm anseo'


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,698 ✭✭✭Gumbi


    djerk wrote: »
    it would be just short form of 'Is as..', i suppose more suited to formal speaking or short hand response to a question about where an individual was born

    eg, (Is) As Cábhán a rugadh 'ainm anseo'

    I would tend to think using the form as + rugadh is not said in Irish. Rugadh i gCabhán mé would be a way to use "rugadh". One can say "Is as Luimneach mé" but not Rugadh as Luimneach mé (as your earlier usage would imply).

    Rugadh orm is also an acceptable form.


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