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Tá an fóram seo don Ghaeilge amháin. Postáil do theachtaireacht sa fhóram darb ainm “General Discussion (Irish and English)”, le do thoil.
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For what it’s worth, here’s what I found searching in The New Corpus for Ireland (http://corpas.focloir.ie) There were only find 5 results for ba bheag go and in 4 of the 5 phrases it was ba bheag go deo…. Here are the examples:
Ba bheag go deo maoine a bhí ag formhór an ocht milliún gnáthdhaoine. — Anois, ANOIS
Ba bheag go deo iad cearta na Gaeilge sa mhéid go raibh ceart ar bith ag an teanga. — Feasta, Feasta
Ba bheag go mbrúdh sé a chuid tuairimí síos do scórnach. — www
Bhí seisean trí bliana is tríocha sa bhliain 1939. B’ as Contae Ua Fáile é agus ba bheag go deo a eolas ar Ghaeilge nó go raibh sé thart ar 18 mbliana. — Feasta, Feasta
Ba bheag go deo Tra Li I gcomparaid le Londain agus b’ aoibhínn gach ball I suilibh Mhaidhc , Droichead Ui Mhorainaa , Cnoc Bhreanainn , Droichead an Chama , Gleann na nGealt , Luachair , Sliabh Luachra , Abha na Scail agus idir sin agus an Daingean chonaic siad Baile an Ghoilin agus an Choill Mhor faoina bhun ait a raibh Lord Ventry ina chonai ann , agus go bhfuil Colaiste Ide ann inniu — www, Péist an Mheán-OícheBa bheag gur… returned two others:
Ba bheag gur chuir sé trua orm le bheith ag beathnú ar Shohel Nozawa agus é i gcruth titim faoi bhráid na gceamaraí. — www, AN PHOBLACHT/REPUBLICAN NEWS
Ba bheag gur phléasc díon an Shed! — Lá, LáNote that the Corpus results come from crawling various resources. I don’t think they necessarily reflect “good” Irish.
From the way you phrase it, Daniel, I wonder if you mean “infinitive” or “root” form? As Eadaoin mentions, the verbal noun is used for the infinitive in Irish. The verb root is sorta where the conjugation examples you give start from. (“Ith” in the verb you use.)
Pé scéal é, you can search the online O’Dónaill dictionary using almost any form a word and if it is not already the root it will suggest that the word you searched with might be a form of the root that it then gives you, which is a hyperlink to the definition for the root word. From there you can go to the Grammar tab and find all of the conjugations, verbal noun and adjective and other variations. The dictionary can be found here: http://www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/.
Go n-éirí an t-ádh leat!
Something like “it was barely that…”. If you use the advanced search feature at http://www.focloir.ie and search for the Irish string is beag or ba bheag you’ll get lots of examples in context that will help make it clearer.
A Raparree, a chara:
I found that making opportunities to practice speaking and listening for understanding were the most challenging in an environment devoid of other speakers. There are so many resources online for listening, though. My personal favorite is Ráidío na Gaeltachta, which you can stream in realtime, and listen to podcasts of previous programs (including downloading and listening to them later, on the road, etc.). I solved the speaking challenge by slowly building a community of co-learners around me, so we now have classes and conversation circles and we are wonderfully fortunate to live within reach of Daltaí na Gaeilge events, which I go to whenever I can. I understand that you haven’t found in-person resources in Poland yet. If you had more time there I bet you could discover or create that.
Go n-éirí an t-ádh leat!
Another couple of Irish translations of “wolf” you might consider that don’t include the “son of” meaning:
cú allta, literally “wild hound”. (“Cú” can also mean “champion”.)
madra allta, literally “wild dog”
It’s a variation on i ndáiríre, “seriously”. See: http://breis.focloir.ie/en/fgb/dáiríre
A couple of online resources that might be useful:
http://www.omniglot.com/language/colours/irish.php for a list of the basic colours, along with etymology of the name.
http://www.focal.ie/Abc.aspx?&lang=3116659&extent=bydomain&domain=3116839&collection=0&page=1 for a list of 240 colours. (Use the >> button to see the 2nd page.)
If you have access to a copy of Gaschaint by Úna Lawlor, it’s a wonderful list of two thousand phrases mostly directed from a parent to a child. There are translations and recordings for each of the English sentences into the Irish of the 3 primary dialects. Worth a look.
