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Lol. What’ve I gotten myself into? 🤣 Thank you, that really does help and clears it up for me. Well…I plow ahead…can’t likely stop now. 😄
Thanks, I was hoping as much. But I’m still a little confused, cause when I use the “noun+adjective” combo on teanglann.ie’s Grammar Wizard tab, it always says, “NOTE: When the definite article (an) is not present, generally the nominative is used instead of the genitive: ag lorg an mhadra mhóir, le haghaidh an mhadra mhóir but ag lorg madra mór, le haghaidh madra mór.” So I think something must not be taking to my brain about this. Help? 🤔😩
Thank you! I’ll check it out. And if it still isn’t real clear, I’ll just err on the side of the simpler, unlenited version. I just realized I might be over-thinking it (as I tend to do🤣) and turn out sounding like it does when someone tries too hard in English and ends up doing it wrong/weird…like “You did a [color=blue]well[/color] job,”😒 or “John and [color=blue]I’s[/color] dog.” or something.🤦ðŸ»â€â™€ï¸ Thanks. I can’t describe how much I like this forum and appreciate all the time and help. I hope I can learn enough one day to help others on Daltai too!
Wow. Most of ya’ll er over my head…for now.🙃 Thank you SO much for your info and opinions, and thanks to Lughaidh for checking Facebook—it’d be real neat if you get an answer from a native! But, either way, thank you.
Hey, thanks, everyone for the info! So… It looks like there’s a lot of variation! Lol. 😋 I still love this language!
Ok, thanks! I figured I could trust teanglann.ie!ðŸ‘🼠And it’s also good to hear that it’s a form not often used. I really appreciate it.
Wow, thanks, Lughaidh, you know a lot! This is gonna help, cause I’m trying to make detailed flash cards on the declensions of common nouns on Tinycards to train myself. I tried to find more myself about that “dntls” list you gave, but I came up short…does that mean that if the main noun [color=red]ends[/color] with one of those letters and the adjective (or genitive noun) [color=green]starts[/color] with one of those letters, there would be no lenition?…or does it mean that if two of those letters came together in the same word (solas [color=red]tr[/color]áchta), [color=brown]then[/color] there’d be no lenition. Sorry, I’m a little ask-y lately. I’ll go dormant for awhile here’na minute. 😋
Yay! That’s a relief…things were getting complicated! If I could ask another question…what (in those examples, for instance) is it that triggers such lenition?
These are gonna be great resourses (I’ve just subscribed to Barrscéalta in Podcasts!), thank you. (Although I’m not “líofa” enough to even navigate that one website you gave a link to yet, though.ðŸ§). I love the sound of Ulster too. Thus far my only dialectal resources have been “Now You’re Talking Irish” videos, BBC Ulster Blás podcast, the “Ulster” button on Teanglann.ie, and the Gaoth Dobhair setting in the Abair.ie synthesizer…so I DEFINITELY like extra references!
Awesome! Thanks, I appreciate it. Do you know if “bhuaithe” is also equivalent, and would that be apprx. “WY•huh.” Thanks!
Yeah, I’m thinking you’re right that it may be a regional variation thing. Today, on YouTube, on “Now You’re Talking Irish” episode 20, at 2min 10sec., the girl says, “Cad é an chuma atá air?” and clearly pronounces “air” like “ay.” While others in other clips say it with a regular “r” and still others with a more slender “r.” A couple more good examples at 14:27 and 16:00. Thanks for all the input from everyone so far. I’m trying to learn as authentic a Gweedore Ulster as I can, and I find the little details pretty interesting.
