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kittydesadeYou saw in Unit 7 that question words such as Cad? (What?) require the verb to be preceded by a (+ lenition). You can also see that other words such as Cathain? (When?) and nuair (when) also require a. This a also corresponds to which and who in English relative clauses, e.g.
an obair a dhéanaim, the work which I do
an ceol a thaitníonn liom, the music which I like
an duine a bhí ann, the person who was there
a + tá gives atá:
an cluiche atá ar siúl, the game which is in progress
The copula is does not change shape in relative clauses.
Is fearr liom an dath sin. I prefer that color.
Sin an dath is fearr liom. That is the color which I prefer.
Clauses introduced by a in Irish are more frequent than English relative clauses, for two reasons. One is that question words require them, as you have seen. The other is that when a word or phrase is brought to the beginning of a sentence for emphasis (as is very often done) the verb must be preceded by a. Compare:
Cén sórt carr atá agat? What kind of car do you have?
Carr dearg atá agam. The car I have is a red one.
Cén cineál tinnis atá ort? What kind of ailment do you have?
Tinneas cinn atá orm. A headache is what's bothering me.
Cén dath aatá ar a casóg? What colour is her coat?
Casóg bhán atá uirthi. It's a white coat she is wearing.
Cé atá amuigh? Who is outside?
Tomás atá amuigh. It's Tom who is outside.
One of these days I'm going to figure out this whole being a homeowner thing. But today is not that day. This week probably isn't even that week. I don't even want to tell you the sticker shock of winter heating. Going to have to pay a lot more attention to that, now. On the plus side, the January lean time is over, so there's that. Right now I still want to curl up and cry over a couple of things. Or stay home and cry. Or something. On the plus side, no massive bill for airconditioning in the summer. At all. Partly because we don't have it and partly because if the last summer was any indication, we shouldn't actually need it.
Anyway.
The good part of the night was making a new friend on Twitter. And by making a new friend I mean dear god that was an epic fit of geekery we had the other night. Voltron and Gundam and Code Geass and booze of varying flavors and Na'vi mockery and Eddie Izzard and who knows what else. It was freaking awesome. And Shadowrun, Shadowrun started it all. New Friend turned out to be a Shadowrunner and I ran and told
lireavue and then we all dogpiled on him and it got incredibly silly. I needed that. So much. It was awesome.And I think the key to enjoying a good glass of the Tullamore before bed is at least a glass and a half of water, a couple aspirin, and uninterrupted fucking sleep. Okay, it was interrupted once, but not much, I rolled over and went back to bed. No headache, no nothing. I don't usually get hangover headaches (then again I don't often drink much anyway), so I'm not sure what that was, but I think at this point I might just have to blame not getting a solid fucking night's sleep in the last two weeks. Some of the time when I wake up it's just for a couple minutes, long enough to roll over and go ugh and pass out again. Sometimes, not so much.
... I think that must be a mockingbird or something because I could have sworn that was a machine or someone's damn cell phone. And speaking of birds, I went out and fed the birds and five freaking blue jays. Five.
Ugh. I don't want the high today to be 31. That's not exactly helping the whole augh cost of heating what the fuck thing. Though, okay, if the five day forecast turns out to be true, we should have nice temperatures in a day or two for a few days, so that'll be good. Still. I'm ready for it to start thawing out a little now. I want to be able to go out and root around in my garden on weekends. Clean off the back deck. Clear out the raised bed in front of the back deck. Homeowner stuff. Ah well. Winter, you know, what can you do. Oh, but I did discover that at least one of my jade sprigs has made some small new leaves. Or at least, I'm pretty sure those weren't there a couple months ago. So yay! I haven't killed them yet! And my broccoli is thriving even if two of the plans are doing something weird involving very widely spaced little... things. The florets have a lot of, for lack of a clearer term, white space. Not sure if that's just a natural variation or what.
Okay, today's tasks: Finish up and post part 2 of the Wesen biology thing, and then line edits on Brownie Mafia and/or coding more website crap. There may or may not be dinner tonight, now, and I wish people would make up their goddamn minds. But if there isn't dinner maybe there will be Hobbiting again. And that would be kind of awesome.
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