A Learner's Guide to Irish by Wong, Donna -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Front Cover Half-Title page Title page Copyright page Table of Contents Introduction

The Author The Book Acknowledgements

Conventions

Caighdeán Spelling Length-Marks The Gaelic Typeface Grammatical Terms, Irish-English Symbols, Abbreviations, and Terms in this Book

Tools

The Ó Dónaill Dictionary The Dinneen Dictionary Foclóir Póca ‘Pocket Dictionary’ Additional

Preverbal Particles Verbs

Person, Number, Tense, Mood Analytic Forms vs. Synthetic Forms Conjugation

Regular vs. Irregular

Regular Verbs Monosyllabics with Final Consonant, Present and Past Monosyllabics with Final Consonant, Imperfect and Conditional Monosyllabics with Final Consonant, Future Monosyllabics with Final -igh, Present and Past Monosyllabics with Final -igh, Imperfect and Conditional Monosyllabics with Final -igh, Future Polysyllabics with Final -igh, Present and Past Polysyllabics with Final -igh, Imperfect and Conditional Polysyllabics with Final -igh, Future Polysyllabics with Final -il, -in, -is, -aim, and -aing, Present and Past Polysyllabics with Final il, -in, -is, -aim, and -aing, Imperfect & Conditional Polysyllabics with Final il, -in, -is, -aim, or -aing, Future Syncopating Polysyllabics with Final -il, -in, -ir, or -is, Present and Past Syncopating Polysyllabics with Final -il, -in, -ir, or -is, Imperfect & Conditional Syncopating Polysyllabics with Final -il, -in, -ir, or -is, Future

Irregular Verbs

Abair and Tabhair Faigh and Téigh Bí Beir and Tar Déan and Feic Clois and Ith

The Substantive vs. the Copula Part 2

The Copula

Forms A Case Study Combined Forms What is it? Which is it? Idioms with le and do Emphasis

The Verbal Noun

Features Functions

The Definite Article Nouns

Types Gender, Number, Case Uses of the Genitive Case Plurals Declensions First Declension Second Declension Third Declension Fourth Declension Fifth Declension Irregular Mutations

Part 3

Adjectives

Predicative vs. Attributive Degrees Plurals Declensions First Declension Second Declension Third Declension Mutations

Pronouns Prepositions

Functions and Types Simple Prepositions Compound Prepositions Prepositional Pronouns

Independent vs. Dependent Clauses

Direct vs. Indirect Quotation Direct Quotation Indirect Quotation Direct Relative Clauses Indirect Relative Clauses

‘If’ and ‘If Not’ Syntax Numbers

Types Cardinal Ordinal Personal

Interrogatives Lookalikes

Footnotes

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