{"id":8515,"date":"2016-10-22T18:27:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T18:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/irish\/?p=8515"},"modified":"2016-12-09T03:27:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T03:27:59","slug":"to-be-or-to-wear-which-irish-verb-for-halloween-costumes-agus-eadai-go-ginearalta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/irish\/to-be-or-to-wear-which-irish-verb-for-halloween-costumes-agus-eadai-go-ginearalta\/","title":{"rendered":"To Be or To Wear: Which Irish Verb for Halloween Costumes (agus \u00e9ada\u00ed go ginear\u00e1lta)"},"content":{"rendered":"

(le R\u00f3isl\u00edn)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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C\u00e9n s\u00f3rt neach \u00e9 seo? F\u00edorvaimp\u00edr? Gn\u00e1thdhuine i gculaith vaimp\u00edre? Fear gn\u00f3 i gculaith vaimp\u00edre? Imreoir ‘Bob n\u00f3 Bia’ i gculaith vaimp\u00edre? Gn\u00e1thfhear gn\u00f3 tar \u00e9is “Occupy Wall St. na Vaimp\u00edr\u00ed”? Mainic\u00edn do chomhlacht lionsa\u00ed tadhaill? (grafaic: https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/dracula-vampire-halloween-1226357\/)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

The Irish language offers two main verbs for saying you are wearing an item of clothing.\u00a0 One is the verb “to be,” combined with the word “on,” essentially saying “A hat is on me,” for “I am wearing a hat.”\u00a0 The second is the verb “caith<\/strong>,” which can literally mean “wear,” but which can also mean “wear out,” “consume,” “spend,” “smoke,” “cast,” or “throw.”\u00a0 And that’s even before such combinations as “caith i ndiaidh<\/strong>” (pine for), “caith anuas ar<\/strong>” (belittle), etc.<\/p>\n

I tend to prefer the first one (… a bheith orm<\/strong>, T\u00e1 … orm, Bh\u00ed … orm, srl.)<\/strong> since there’s less ambiguity.\u00a0 Of course, saying “T\u00e1 stoca\u00ed orm<\/strong>” (I’m wearing socks), could possibly be construed to mean that some socks happened to fall on my back when I was lying down on my stomach, but common sense would tell us that this is unlikely.<\/p>\n

Anyway, let’s look at some examples.\u00a0 And by the way, this is a good round up of verb practice.\u00a0 But we’ll just stick to present, past and future, since these would be the most typical for discussing Halloween costumes.<\/p>\n

T\u00e1 culaith vaimp\u00edre orm.\u00a0 Bh\u00ed culaith vaimp\u00edre orm.\u00a0 Beidh culaith vaimp\u00edre orm. <\/strong><\/p>\n

If we use the “caith<\/strong>” verb, we’d have:<\/p>\n

T\u00e1 culaith vaimp\u00edre \u00e1 caitheamh agam.\u00a0 Caithim culaith vaimp\u00edre go minic.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Bh\u00ed culaith vaimp\u00edre \u00e1 caitheamh agam.\u00a0 Chaith m\u00e9 culaith vaimp\u00edre ar\u00e9ir.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Beidh culaith vaimp\u00edre \u00e1 caitheamh agam.\u00a0 Caithfidh m\u00e9 culaith vaimp\u00edre an bhliain seo chugainn. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Of course, there is a third alternative, using the Irish linking verb “is<\/strong>,” or its past tense “ba<\/strong>.”\u00a0 In these cases, you’re not saying you’re wearing a costume; you’re saying you are the character, animal, creature, etc.\u00a0 Some samples are:<\/p>\n

Is vaimp\u00edr m\u00e9<\/strong>.\u00a0 I am a vampire. \u00a0You could use this to say that you really are a vampire.\u00a0 Or you could mean that your costume shows that you are pretending to be a vampire.<\/p>\n

Ba vaimp\u00edr m\u00e9<\/strong>.\u00a0 I was a vampire.\u00a0 \u00a0This could be used to say that you dressed up as a vampire for Halloween or that you really used to be a vampire until somehow you got returned to a normal human state.<\/p>\n

And actually, there’s a fourth alternative, using forms of the verb “t\u00e1<\/strong>” and phrases like “i mo<\/strong>,” “i do<\/strong>,” and “ina<\/strong>,” as connectors.\u00a0\u00a0 This structure generally indicates a change in status, which seems reasonable, considering how people become vampires.\u00a0 In this case we would have:<\/p>\n

T\u00e1 m\u00e9 i mo vaimp\u00edr<\/strong>.\u00a0 I am a vampire (implying that you didn’t used to be)<\/p>\n

Bh\u00ed t\u00fa i do vaimp\u00edr<\/strong>. You were a vampire.<\/p>\n

Beidh s\u00e9 ina vaimp\u00edr<\/strong>. He will be a vampire.<\/p>\n

Beidh s\u00ed ina vaimp\u00edr<\/strong>.\u00a0 She will be a vampire.<\/p>\n

For clarification regarding the current\/past status, we could have a sentence like<\/p>\n

Ba ghn\u00e1thdhuine daonna m\u00e9 ach t\u00e1 m\u00e9 i mo vaimp\u00edr anois \u00f3 bhain Dracula greim asam<\/strong>. \u00a0I was an ordinary human being but I am a vampire now since Dracula bit me.<\/p>\n

By the way, thinking of fangs, fake and actual, it seems to me we’d have two possibilities, contrasting “having fangs” with “wearing (fake) fangs”:<\/p>\n

A real vampire (m\u00e1s ann d\u00f3ibh<\/strong>) would say: T\u00e1 starrfhiacla agam<\/strong>.\u00a0 I have fangs.<\/p>\n

But a person wearing a vampire costume with fangs would say: T\u00e1 starrfhiacla orm<\/strong>, i.e. I’m wearing fangs.\u00a0 They could be “starrfhiacla c\u00e9arach<\/strong>” (fangs of wax) or “starrfhiacla plaisteacha<\/strong>” (plastic fangs).\u00a0 And yes, there are even “starrfhiacla canda\u00ed<\/strong>.”\u00a0 Some are made of a substaint ch\u00e9iri\u00fail<\/strong> and some are made of cine\u00e1l guma coganta<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Of course, one could also say “T\u00e1 m\u00e9 ag caitheamh mo starrfhiacla<\/strong>,” but since edible fangs are sold for Halloween, it could mean “I’m consuming my (edible) fangs” or “I’m smoking (!) my fangs.”\u00a0 Or, if the vampire is afflicted with bruxism (I haven’t found an Irish word for that), he could mean, “I’m wearing out my fangs.”<\/p>\n

So, there you have the choices:<\/p>\n

T\u00e1 culaith vaimp\u00edre orm.\u00a0 T\u00e1 culaith vaimp\u00edre \u00e1 caitheamh agam.\u00a0 Is vaimp\u00edr m\u00e9.\u00a0 T\u00e1 m\u00e9 i mo vaimp\u00edr.<\/strong>\u00a0 And so on, for the other tenses.<\/p>\n

The first two structures could be used for ordinary clothing as well: T\u00e1 hata orm.\u00a0 Beidh c\u00f3ta m\u00f3r \u00e1 chaitheamh agam. \u00a0Chaith daoine mar Jon Pertwee, Cary Grant, agus Frank Sinatra cas\u00f3ga cois tine. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

And what do you think of the fellow in the picture?\u00a0 A real vampire?\u00a0 A ordinary guy in a vampire costume?\u00a0 A business man wearing a vampire costume?\u00a0 A Trick-or-Treater wearing a vampire costume?\u00a0 An ordinary businessman after Vampire Occupy Wall Street?\u00a0 A model for a contact lens company?\u00a0 Do bhar\u00fail?<\/strong><\/p>\n

An raibh tusa riamh i do vaimp\u00edr (i gcomhair O\u00edche Shamhna)?<\/strong><\/p>\n

SGF — R\u00f3isl\u00edn<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gluais don phicti\u00far<\/strong>: bob<\/strong>, trick, prank; c\u00e1ba<\/strong>, cape;\u00a0c\u00e9arach<\/strong>, of wax; imreoir<\/strong>, player; lionsa<\/strong>, lens; mainic\u00edn<\/strong>, mannequin,\u00a0tadhall<\/strong>, contact; tadhaill<\/strong>, of contact<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

(le R\u00f3isl\u00edn) The Irish language offers two main verbs for saying you are wearing an item of clothing.\u00a0 One is the verb “to be,” combined with the word “on,” essentially saying “A hat is on me,” for “I am wearing a hat.”\u00a0 The second is the verb “caith,” which can literally mean “wear,” but which…<\/p>\n

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