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Pronouns as object of the verbal noun.

The object of the verbal noun comes immediately after it:
Tá siad ag díol airgead maith. They are paying good money.

However if you want to say they are paying me, you, him, etc. it is not possible to simply put a pronoun after the verbal noun. Instead do + possessive pronoun is put before the verbal noun (and the construction literally means they are to my paying, etc.) Here is teh full range of forms.

Tá siad do mo dhíol. They are paying me.
Tá siad do do dhíol. They are paying you.
Tá siad á dhíol. They are paying him.
Tá siad á díol. They are paying her.
Tá siad dár ndíol. They are paying us.
Tá siad do bhur ndíol. They are paying you.
Tá siad á ndíol. They are paying them.

Notice that á is followed by whatever mutation is required by gender of the noun. Compare:
Masculine: Tá mé ag déanamh císte. I am making a cake.
Tá mé á héanamh. I am making it.

Feminine: Tá mé ag foghlaim Gaeilge. I am learning Irish.
Tá mé á foghlaim. I am learning it.

Plural: Tá mé ag ceannach úlla. I am buying apples.
Tá mé á gceannach. I am buying them.


This is going on 24 hours with poached egg eyes tiredness. I disapprove.

So, I launched my urban fantasy serial the other day, or at least, the teaser that hopefully will get people subscribed to my mailing list. A fair bit of panic for very little payoff, but maybe it'll accumulate payoff over time? As I'm not panicking. I have to keep reminding myself that it's a story I wanted to tell anyway. That's the point. This is not for popularity and I flail over being paid attention to anyway. Brains are ridiculous the way they work like that, I was doing this because I had an idea, I've had an idea in bits and pieces and now it's coming out into a story and the only reason it's out there in this form is because it was useful. That's not the primary purpose.

No, just, argh in general. Generally, argh. My brain is doing unpleasant things and I want it to stop, I have work to do.

So, today's work. 4 scenes in White Lightning and brainstorming ideas for this one place for submission. That's enough to do today around a concert. Which I unexpectedly have, but it still could be some relief from being tired all the time. Residual from last week/the weekend? No, actually, now that I think about it, it's probably more that I haven't given myself a break since ... well, for a while. Last week was last week, this past weekend was a punch to the psyche, Monday Tuesday and Wednesday were all a pile of rush rush rush to meet deadlines. Maybe this weekend can be less of that and more of curling up and doing nothing. Or at least, less of rush rush rush to meet deadlines even if there's work involved. Blargh.