BBC Irish Show - SRL

Johnny_the_fox

SRL - BBC2 Mondays @ 8 p.m

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Did anyone see it?

snickerpuss

Yup ive been watching that the last few weeks. Its pretty cool but a tad confusing cos im hopeless at understanding donegal accent.

Suaimhneach

Conaic mé é uair nó dó tamaill ó shin. Bíonn sé air an deanach ar fad. Bhí sé simúil ar aon os!

I saw it once or twice a while back. Its on really late. It was interesting!

Gleanndún

Originally posted by jesjes
Bíonn sé air an deanach ar fad.

Could you explain the grammer of this sentance 2 me please? it has bíonn, but 2 nouns. and ar fhad means late? is it equivical to ar anonn that i found in this dict?

thanx:)


p.s. sorry for the digression>.^

Suaimhneach

I'd better wait for someone who can explain the rules better than me. But the sentance did mean "it does be on very late". I don't even know if that is good grammer, but it's what I'd say...so. Good luck!

Inspector Gadget

"Ar fad" is a standard cliché (if you like) - in terms of sentence construction it's equivalent to saying "very", but used primarily to add emphasis or to mark the sentence as describing a superlative of some sort (in the same way that many English speakers of Irish descent would use "altogether" at the end of sentence).

Very basic example:
"An fhuar" = "very cold"
"An fhuar ar fad" ~= "extremely cold"

This superlative condition is sometimes further reemphasised by repetition ("ar fad ar fad", and so on)

Does that help?
Gadget