Oscail, oscailt, oscailte?

dahamsta

Are you allowed talk english in here?

Can someone explain the differences between oscail, oscailt and oscailte to me please? I've discussed it with some Irish speakers already, but they don't seem too sure of themselves.

TIA,
adam

Dun

Oscail is the infinitive of the verb (i.e. like fermer in French), and translates "to open". In Irish the infinitive is usually the same (formed from?) the 2nd person singular imperative - the command to one person, in plain English so 'oscail' can mean 'to open' or 'open!' (like 'open the door').

Oscailt is the verbal noun (present participle). It is equivalent to the English -ing, so oscailt is 'opening'. (Tá mé ag oscailt.. I am opening..)

Oscailte is the verbal adjective or past participle. English equivalents usually end in '-ed' but there are lots of irregular ones in English (compare 'walk -> walked' and 'type -> typed' with drive -> drove and read -> read (think reed and red)).

Summary..

Oscail an doras = Open the door
an doras a oscail = to open the door

Tá sé ag oscailt an doras = he's opening the door

Tá an doras oscailte = the door is opened.

dahamsta

Thanks dun_do_bheal. How would you express the terms "open source" or "open content" as Gaeilge?

adam

Dun

Well source code is bunchód, so perhaps bunchód oscailte.

Dun

By the way, there's a page of computing terms as Gaeilge out there:

http://gaeilge.sourceforge.net/tearmai.html

dahamsta

That's great, thanks again dun_do_bheal.

adam

Dun

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Originally posted by dun_do_bheal
Well source code is bunchód, so perhaps bunchód oscailte.

I'd say saorbhunchód. It's more 'free' than 'opened', innit?

reimo

Bain usáid as an fóclóir seo. Tá sé cuirtha le chéile ag an cúrsa atá á dhéanamh agam san ollscooi- FIONTAR.

Use this dictionary. Its put together by FIONTAR (the course I study in DCU).

http://www.dcu.ie/fiontar/further/btfbeag/BTFbeag.html