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There’s No Place Like Home: Irish Vocabulary for Describing a Hamster’s Cage Posted by on May 31, 2019

(le Róislín)  Lately we’ve been writing about hamstair (hamsters) and specifically the Irish words for different foods that they eat.  Now we’ll check out their digs — a “cás hamstair” and its typical “troscán.” This will also be some practice with matching up Irish nouns and adjectives and using numbers to say how many of…

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The Taste of the Food (from a hamster’s viewpoint): Blas an Bhia (ó radharc hamstair) agus Cleachtadh leis an Tuiseal Ginideach Posted by on May 18, 2019

(le Róislín) Last time we looked at different foods (bianna éagsúla) that hamsters can and can’t eat and practiced the Irish vocabulary for 35 different edible items (nasc thíos/link below). This time we’ll look at those same foods and determine if they are “Neam-neam!” or “Uch!” Of course, there could be a third category, foods…

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What food can hamsters eat? (plé i nGaeilge – a discussion in Irish) Posted by on Apr 30, 2019

(le Róislín) Cúpla bliain ó shin scríobh mé blagmhír faoi sheirbil agus hamstar, iad ag cur síos ar a gcásanna agus ag rá an raibh ámóg nó caochóg nó tigín nó rudaí eile mar sin acu.  Ar ndóigh, beagán antrapamorfachais a bhí ann.  (Nasc thíos) A few years ago, I wrote an Irish blogpost about…

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An bhfuil peata agat? Talking about Pets in Irish: Hamstair (hamsters) Posted by on Jul 24, 2017

(le Róislín) Continuing with our ongoing “peataí” theme, the “hamstar” is today’s “ainmhí an lae.”  We’ve actually discussed hamsters (hamstair) previously in this blog, and even had a comhrá between “Hamaltún an Hamstar” and “Searbhán an tSeirbil” (naisc thíos).  Given téama an bhlag, it seemed like a good time to revisit these popular “creimirí” (rodents…

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Irish Vocabulary Round-up for ‘Comhrá idir Hamstar agus Seirbil’ Posted by on Feb 6, 2016

(le Róislín)   Our most recent post introduced some vocabulary specific to hamster and gerbil cages, as Hamaltún an Hamstar and Searbhán an tSeirbil compared their accommodations (nasc thíos). Let’s take a closer look and check out some more general vocabulary as well. A. Céard Atá sna Cásanna? ámóg [AWM-ohg], hammock ardán codlata [AWRD-awn KUL-uh-tuh…

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Comhrá: Searbhán an tSeirbil agus Hamaltún an Hamstar ag caint faoina gcásanna Posted by on Jan 31, 2016

(le Róislín) Since we talked about hamstair in the most recent blog, I figured we might as well do seirbilí this time. So first, let’s look at the different forms for the word “seirbil” and then a few other words that have a similar pattern.  Then we’ll have a little comhrá between a seirbil and a…

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Which Celtic Language Has 5 Words for ‘Hamster’ (Leid: Ní hí an Ghaeilge í!)? Posted by on Jan 28, 2016

(le Róislín) Bhuel, as the title of this blog post suggests, Irish isn’t the Celtic language that has five words for ‘hamster.’   Or as “an leid” in the title said, “Ní hí an Ghaeilge í.” In fact, we can take care of the Irish word for ‘hamster’ quite tidily: hamstar, a hamster.  Note that the…

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