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  • 03-11-2016 10:24pm
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    CelticRambler
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    I'm watching Lurgan Beo (from afar) and it seems like every one of the students, when asked their age, says Tá mé sé-déag bliana d'aois

    Now I think Coláiste Lurgan is doing a great job, and my Irish is awfully rusty, but is Tá sé mbliana déag (d'aois) agam" obsolete now?

    And what happend to táim ?


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    tuisginideach
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    Táim and tá mé are both acceptable. Sé bliana déag d'aois would be correct.


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    Insect Overlord
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    Yeah, it's "seacht/ocht/naoi/deich mbliana".

    "Trí/ceathar/cúig/sé bliana".


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    Maidhci
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    An File wrote: »
    Yeah, it's "seacht/ocht/naoi/deich mbliana".

    "Trí/ceathar/cúig/sé bliana".

    B'fhéidir.....Trí/ceithre/cúig/sé bliana?


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    Insect Overlord
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    Maidhci wrote: »
    B'fheidir.....Trí/ceithre/cúig/sé bliana?

    Brón orm, tá an ceart agat! Do bhíos leath i mo chodladh agus mé ag scríobh! :D


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    CelticRambler
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    It's the use of tá mé/táim ... bliana instead of tá ... bliana agam that seems odd to me. Unless my memory is badly corrupted, when we started learning French in secondary, it was perfectly natural to use the verb avoir to express age because we "had" an age in Irish rather than "were" an age.

    Is it a regional variation? Did the two forms always exist, or did I pick up a bizarre habit from somewhere?


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    tuisginideach
    Registered Users Posts: 2,051 ✭✭✭tuisginideach


    Tá ... agam is prefectly correct but I would think that - nowadays - most learners (and many native speakers) would use Tá mé ...

    I suppose it's reflective of the influence of English.


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