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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 on Oct 31, 2017

(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…

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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. 1) Posted by on Oct 29, 2017

(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…

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Is (X) mé — An (X) thusa?  — Saying ‘I am a (X)’ — ‘Are you a (X)?’ in Irish  Posted by on Oct 27, 2017

(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…

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Glasra Oíche Shamhna (a Halloween vegetable), but what’s it called in Irish? Posted by on Oct 24, 2017

(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 __________…

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