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exercise XCI

§ 507. It will now be ween that we have a clue to the gender of many words whenever we hear or see them in the nominative and accusative case singular. Thus from the following exercise we might conclude that uisge, balla, baile, bainne are masculine, and súiste, eagla, feminine.

§ 508. S is never aspirated when followed by a consonant, unless this consonant be l , or r. The reason is that the sound of ṡ, that is h, could not be prounounced before the other consonants. Thus, mo sgian, mo speal, mo smeur.

§ 509. Translate into English

• Ċonnaic an fear an speal agus an tsúiste ar an urlár.
• Atá an t-uisge so fuar, olláin.
• Fuair mé an t-uisge fuar ins an tobar.
• Fág an tsúirste ins an sgioból, atá sí briste.
• Ní raiḃ an flaiṫ óg astiġ, aċt ḃí an t-árd-ri stiġ in a luiġe, ḃí tinneas air.
• Atá sé marḃ leis an eagla.
• Ní’l an eagla orm.
• Ní ġaca an capall in balla
• Ḃí baile mórar an oileán.
• Cuir an bainne ins an uisge.
• Ṫug Euḋmonn buille trom do Niall, mar ḃí fearg air.

§ 510. Correct the Following

• Atá an t-áit so falláin.
• Atá an tsolas geal.
• Fuair Nóra an uisge agus an feoil
• Cuir an t-uisge fuair ar an im.
• At.a uilaċ mór ar an t-asal.
• Ċuaiḋ an bó a ḃaile leis an t-uan.
• Ní raiḃ an uan óg, ḃí sí mór.
• Atá an t-aill árd.
• Deun deifir leis an t-obair so.

note that
phonetic
symbols
are not
necessarily pronounced
as in English

See § 13-16