You can't even begin to speak any language without being able to say "is" in all of its many forms. "I am happy", "She was there", "Is there any more ice cream?" and the whole host of questions: "Where is the bathroom?" "Who..?"

It's probably the most common verb that you'll use, and in the beginning, nearly every sentence I repeated after the voices on tape had "is" in it somewhere. The base form of the verb is bí

The present tense of the verb bí (is) is tá. This is an irregular verb, so you have to memorize the different forms. .

	Past (I was)	Present (I am)	Future (I will be)	Conditional (I may be)
I	bhi mé	táim	beidh mé	bheirin
you	bhi tú	tá tú	beidh tú	bheifeá
he	bhi sé	tá sé	beidh sé	bheadh sé
she	bhi sí	tá sí	beidh sí	bheadh sí
us	bhiomar	táimid	beidhmid	bheimis
you-all	bhi sibh	tá sibh	beidh sibh	bheadh sibh
they	bhi siad	tá siad	beidh siad	bheidis