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“Níl sé chomh te mar a bhí sé inniu.”
By that, did you really mean inné, ‘yesterday’? That’d be something like:
Níl sé chomh te inniu is a bhí inné
Also, incidentally, your title question “An ceart é seo?” would actually probably be:
An bhfuil sé seo ceart?
…With tá instead of is 🙂
“Níl sé chomh te mar a bhí sé inniu.”
GRMA!
Ä‹oá¹ … is followed either by le (with nouns) or by aguÅ¿ (with phrases)
(but not by maɼ).ċoṠte le tae = as hot as tea
Ä‹oá¹ te aguÅ¿ a ḃí Å¿é = as hot as it was.Níl Å¿é Ä‹oá¹ te aguÅ¿ a ḃí Å¿é inniu. = It is not as hot as it was today.
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Go raibh maith agat, a Chúnla. I did mean “inné”…oops. Can you tell me why “is” would come after “chomh te” rather than “le” or “mar”?
Go raibh maith agaibh arís.Can you tell me why “is” would come after “chomh te” rather than “le” or “mar”?
Well, so is in this case is just the short form of agus, and it can often be translated (in usages such as this) as English ‘as.’ Like Labhrás points out just above, you’d use le with a noun:
Ä‹oá¹ te le tae = as hot as tea
…But agus or is with a following verb in the relative:
Ä‹oá¹ te aguÅ¿ a ḃí Å¿é = as hot as it was
I was thinking “le” might be with nouns only. Thanks for confirming that.
A Labhráis, I’m not able to find “aguí” anywhere. Is it a dialect thing?
Is it alright to use “is” instead of “aguí”?
Oh, Séiril: what Labhrás has—aguſ—is just agus spelled using the long ⟨s⟩ that was used in the old Gaelic script. Cf.:
Tuigim anois. Those letters don’t show up very well on my computer so it looked like a long “i” to me lol.
I was thinking “le” might be with nouns only. Thanks for confirming that.
A Labhráis, I’m not able to find “aguí” anywhere. Is it a dialect thing?
No, no, the s is the most stable element in this word: agus, ’gus, is, ’s
I wrote aguÅ¿, with a long s, i.e. Å¿, as Cúnla said.
But it should appear in Gaelic script, cló Gaelach, of course: aguÅ¿Is it alright to use “is” instead of “agus”?
Yes.
(or iſ in Gaelic script ;))
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