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Help Learning Gaelic (Irish)
Hi, I'm trying to teach myself gaelic over the internet. I'm sort of stuck on pronunciation and the changes in spelling when going from singular to plural or past to present, etc. Could someone clear this up for me?
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Re:Help Learning Gaelic (Irish)
Hi Lia,
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Joseph
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Re:Help Learning Gaelic (Irish)
Hi Lia,
Pluralisation is different for the different declensions of Irish words, so there is no one easy rule for how to make words plural.
Very roughly, nouns in the first declension (includes most masculine nouns) you add an 'i' before the last consonant, but sometimes you'll change the last vowel to an i instead.
Nouns in the second declension (most feminine nouns) get an i added before the last consonant if they don't already have an i or e there, and they get an e added onto the end.
Unless they end with each or ach that is, in which case the end changes to í or aí respectively.
Then there's the third declension, which usually get an í added to the end, but there may be other changes too...
Fourth and fifth declensions have various other ways of forming plurals. To be honest you really need to look up each word in a dictionary and find it's declension in order to form the plural initially, but if that doesn't put you off and you keep at it, you will eventually start to remember them.
To make the past tense you add a h after the first consonant, usually... Then there's a host of irregular verbs that have strange past tenses.
Pronouncing Irish words can also be a bit of a struggle. If you post any specific examples here I'll try to explain them.
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