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[kittydesade]

Several adjectives expressing evaluative judgements have different modifier and predicate forms. Maith is a good example. Within a noun phrase, it is like any other adjective: it follows the noun it describes, is lenitied if the houn is feminine, and agrees for pluriality.

Tá fear maith anseo. There is a good man here.
Tá bean mhaith anseo. There is a good woman here.
Tá daoine maithe anseo. There are good people here.

But in predicate position, not only is there no agreement, but the adjective is generally preceded by the particle go.

Tá an bia go maith. The food is good.
Tá an deoch go maith. The drink is good.

Other adjectives in this class include: deas (nice), breá (fine), aoibhinn (pleasant), álainn (beautiful), iontach (wonderful), dona (bad), olc (evil/bad/nasty)

Go does not cause lenition of any consonants, but prefixes h to vowels.
Tá tú go hálainn. You are beautiful.
Tá sé sin go hiontach! That's wonderful!


That doesn't look too hard or complicated. She said, eyeing the bloody language warily. Of all the hobbies to pick, I have no idea why I ended up with studying languages. I mean, it's tremendous fun. But it's also ridiculously complex and tricky and argh.

So. It's Friday. After two snow days in a row it really doesn't feel like a Friday and if I have any time today to do anything at work other than catch up on day job work I will be amazed. I have no idea if we're even getting anything via UPS today, everything is exceptioned because of the 8-10 inches of snow dumped on us the other day. On the other hand it is supposed to warm up over the weekend... oh dear god it's supposed to get into the 50s today? Yeah, all of that snow will be gone pretty damn soon I think. At least where the sun is. Which is most of the area around my house at least, I don't know about UPS.

At any rate. I've one more note to deal with on the Deli Counter story if I have time for that today, then I can turn that in. And then after that I guess I'll attempt dime novels, scenes, and other words. Blog entries? Darren dime novel first, then blog entries. We'll see how much of that I get done. And then picking up upstairs when I get home so I can take pictures of that tomorrow and get that done, then find some place to print out the photos over the weekend.

.... No, it's still weird to be going to work today. And to have the sun out and bright when I leave, though that's more that longer days have snuck up on me. But it's still weird. This whole week has been weird. Stupid snow days throwing me off.