verbal noun question

[TjOC]

If “you’re hitting me” is “tá tú do mo bhualadh”, is “ná bí do mo bhualadh” how you say “don’t be hitting me”?

Or is that sentence construction not used, instead just “ná buail”?

[Seáinín]

The grammar seems sound. Can’t speak for what you’d hear on the streets. (Or in the alleys.)

[TjOC]

Buíochas.

The grammar seems sound. Can’t speak for what you’d hear on the streets. (Or in the alleys.)

Tá an ceart agat. Bíonn mórán daoine ag rá “ag bualadh mé” nó rud éigin mar sin.

[Cúnla]

You can say both “ná bí do mo bhualadh” and “ná buail mé,” but they connote different things. “Ná buail mé” is more like “don’t hit me (in the future),” while “ná bí do mo bhualadh” is closer to “don’t hit me (again),” “don’t keep hitting me,” “stop hitting me.”

[TjOC]

Iontach. An cabhrach.

[Lughaidh]

Bíonn mórán daoine ag rá “ag bualadh mé” nó rud éigin mar sin.

foghlaimeoirí a deir sin, dar liom. Deirtear sin i Manainnis fosta, ach níl sé ceart i nGaeilg na hAlban ná i nGaeilg na hÉireann.
In Ultaibh, deirtear “ná bí ‘mo bhualadh” (ó “ná bí a(g) mo bhualadh”).

[TjOC]

Bíonn mórán daoine ag rá “ag bualadh mé” nó rud éigin mar sin.

foghlaimeoirí a deir sin, dar liom.

Aontaim leat.

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