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[kittydesade]

Some verbal noun endings are found with verbs of both classes. The ending -adh, however, is used exclusively with first-conjugation verbs, while -ú is found only in the second-conjugation verbs. These are also the most common forms for each class. Verbs adding the suffix -t usually end in n, m, l, or r.

A number of verbal nouns are identical to the imperative. This class includes borrwed words ending in -áil, which keep that ending when the tense endings are added.
sábháil
ól
parcáil
snámh
scríobh
rith
díol
foghlaim

Others have no ending, but if the imperative stem ends in a slender consonant, it becomes broad. These are mostly first-conjugation verbs
cuir, cur
siúil, siúl
ceangail, ceangal

Some single syllable verbs ending in -igh simply drop the ending, and what remains is the VN
pléigh, plé
brúigh, brú
dóigh, dó

A few other suffixes are found, but less frequently. Common verbs using some of these are:
-ach: ceannaigh, ceannach
-acht: imigh, imeacht
-í: eirigh, éirí
-im: tit, titim
-an: lig, ligean


So, basically what I'm hearing is I'm going to have to memorize the verbal noun form for all of these. That's worse than the -te forms in Japanese. Ugh.

At this point the packing for PDX is getting... I'd say out of control, but it isn't, quite? But we are starting to plan for an increasingly unlikely series of contingencies that, nonetheless, could be amazing if they happen and if we seize the opportunity? And the majority of them require very little in the way of extra packing, so it's not as though it's anything more than one more item on our list. But the cascading contingencies is ... unnerving.

Less unnerving and more hilarious is the way I've been describing the packing in multisyllable technical words. Oops.

I feel a bit like we're waging a campaign for battle.

So, yeah. Other than that, not much has been going on. I've been doing a lot of sleeping and a lot of reading and I think I'm finally in better shape again. Apart from the sniffles that won't go away, but that seems to mostly be allergies. I can live with allergies. I have drugs for that. Hopefully... argh, so much to do, so little time before Portland. Afterwards is going to be so weirdly anti-climactic. Although it's not like we don't have enough stuff to do when we get back. I mean, just without the blog backlog I have SO many things to write, I have to get the chimney repaired, the bathroom door trim hammered back on (don't ask) and the garden going harder. So.

No, yeah, almost every entry from here on out (knock wood) is going to be EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPORTLAND. Brace yourselves.