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Phonetics

exercise CVI

§ 593. The particle an (an) very, and ró (rō), too, unite with adjectives forming compound words.

Fíor, true, is also used as a prefix, meaning very, as fíor-áluinn, very beautifull; fíor-ḃeagán, very little.

§ 594. Translate into English

• Ní'lid ag dul amach indiu, atá an aimsir ró-fhuar, acht béidhid ag dul amach i mbárach.
• An bhfaca tú an cat?
• Chonnaic, bhí sé 'na chodladh amuigh ar an bhfeur.
• Atá an lá an-fhada.
• An raibh aighne agat ar an bhfear sin?
• Ní raibh, acht bhí aithne mhaith agam ar a athair agus ar a mháthair.
• Béidh meas mór ar an mbuachaill óg sin fós.
• Bhí mé an-óg an t-an úd, bhí mé mo pháisde bheag, agus ní raibh ciall agam.

§595. Translate into Irish

• Do you know (eolas) that road up in the hill?
• I am not going out on the road today, it is too wet (rō luCH).
• The hay is not too dry, it is green yet.
• The boat is in the house (taCH: Munster, ins an dtiġ).
• What is the price of (that is on) that horse (gop'ăL)?
• We have the summer now. The weather is hot and dry in the summer, it is cold and wet in the winter.
• The grass is green in the spring.
• The (ant) spring is short this year.
• Spring, summer, autumn, and winter.
• We shall be going home to Ireland in the summer.
• This poor man does be at home in the winter, but he does not be away (from home) working in the summer and in the autumn.
• There does be oats growing on that hill in the spring.
• The old man was sick this spring, but he got better in the summer.

note that
phonetic
symbols
are not
necessarily pronounced
as in English

See § 13-16