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Vocabulary Roundup for the Blogpost ”Is (X) mé — An (X) tusa? — Saying “I am a (X)” — “Are you a (X)?” in Irish” (Cuid/Pt. 2) Posted by róislín on Oct 31, 2017
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(le Róislín) Today we’ll have the final touch to our recent turnip terminology tour (naisc thíos). We’ll complete the vocabulary roundup for the earlier blogpost of conversations that had a pumpkin talking to a turnip, a Vegemite vignette, a confession from an undercover Martian, a Doctor Who conversation, and an “otairinealaraingeolaí” thrown in, all…
Vocabulary Roundup for the Blogpost ”Is (X) mé — An (X) tusa? — Saying “I am a (X)” — “Are you a (X)?” in Irish” (Cuid/Pt. 1) Posted by róislín on Oct 29, 2017
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(le Róislín) Most of the vocabulary in the last post (nasc thíos) was probably pretty straightforward for any advanced beginner or intermediate learner. But there may have been a few less common words, which we’ll look at here: 1: As “comhrá a haon (Puimcín agus Tornapa) a)) svaeid (an svaeid, iol: na svaeideanna), swede, a…
Is (X) mé — An (X) thusa? — Saying ‘I am a (X)’ — ‘Are you a (X)?’ in Irish Posted by róislín on Oct 27, 2017
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(le Róislín) OK, so we’ll start out on the more fanciful side, a conversation (comhrá) between a pumpkin and a turnip. What the hay — if horses, dogs, clocks, cars, and flowers can all talk in various realms of fiction and folklore, why not pumpkins and turnips? Oh, by the way, those words i nGaeilge…
Glasra Oíche Shamhna (a Halloween vegetable), but what’s it called in Irish? Posted by róislín on Oct 24, 2017
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(le Róislín) Cén glasra é sin sa phictiúr? What vegetable is that in the picture? To answer the questions in the graphic above: An cairéad é? Ní hea, ní __________ é. An práta é? Ní hea, ní __________ é. An biatas é? Ní hea, ní __________ é. An svaeid é? Ní hea, ní __________…