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  • 14-08-2012 3:13pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 149 ✭✭


    If you are trying to say there is a television which would you say and why?
    ‘Tá teilifís ann’ nó ‘Tá teilifís’

    Also if you're trying to say there is a television in my room which would you say and why?
    ‘Tá teilifís ann i mo sheomra’ nó ‘Tá teilifís i mo sheomra’

    In the sentence ‘go dtí go bhfeice mé arís thú’ why does thú come after arís and not before it?

    And why is it ‘go bhfeice mé’ instead of ‘go bhfeicim’?

    And lasty, how would you say that the children would enjoy? go mbainfidís na páistí taitneamh as? Thanks for your help :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,005 ✭✭✭Enkidu


    68508224 wrote: »
    If you are trying to say there is a television which would you say and why?
    ‘Tá teilifís ann’ nó ‘Tá teilifís’
    I would say "Tá teilifís ann".
    Also if you're trying to say there is a television in my room which would you say and why?
    ‘Tá teilifís ann i mo sheomra’ nó ‘Tá teilifís i mo sheomra’
    The second one.
    In the sentence ‘go dtí go bhfeice mé arís thú’ why does thú come after arís and not before it?
    Object pronouns almost always come last in simple Irish sentences.
    And why is it ‘go bhfeice mé’ instead of ‘go bhfeicim’?
    Some dialects separate the subject pronouns and others don't. Some separate it in some persons and tenses and not in others.
    And lasty, how would you say that the children would enjoy? go mbainfidís na páistí taitneamh as? Thanks for your help :)
    It depends exactly what you mean by "that".

    Is it a dependant sentence "I say that the children...", "I think that the children ....." or a relative sentence "I see something which/that the children would enjoy"?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 149 ✭✭68508224


    thanks enkidu thats a great help. for the last one it's a dependent sentence as in i think that the children would enjoy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,159 ✭✭✭deirdremf


    68508224 wrote: »
    If you are trying to say there is a television which would you say and why?
    ‘Tá teilifís ann’ nó ‘Tá teilifís’
    Tá teilifís ann.
    there is/are = tá ... ann
    Also if you're trying to say there is a television in my room which would you say and why?
    ‘Tá teilifís ann i mo sheomra’ nó ‘Tá teilifís i mo sheomra’
    Tá teilifís i mo sheomra.
    "ann" is a form of the preposition "i" - so no need to repeat it.
    In the sentence ‘go dtí go bhfeice mé arís thú’ why does thú come after arís and not before it?
    You can do it either way, but I'd say that it is usually taught the way you say.
    And why is it ‘go bhfeice mé’ instead of ‘go bhfeicim’?
    "go bhfeice" is a subjunctive. Nowadays, many people write the future in this context, but as it's not certain that the situation will come into being, the subjunctive is better used.
    And lasty, how would you say that the children would enjoy? go mbainfidís na páistí taitneamh as? Thanks for your help :)
    "go mbainfeadh na páistí taitneamh as"
    although I'd say
    "a thaithneodh leis na páistí"
    myself!

    Good luck!


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