(no subject)
Apr. 14th, 2014 08:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeIf the object of the verbal noun is a pronoun, the possessive forms mo, do, a ár, bhur must be used. Because these come before a noun that they possess, they also come before the verbal noun that they are the object of. (eh?) In this case, ag cchanges to do, which contracts with a to á and with ár to dár
Bhí sé do do phógadh. He was kissing you.
Tá siad dár mbualadh. They are beating us.
Tá sí á cur. She is sending it. (e.g. a letter.)
Tá mé á ithe. (e.g. an apple, any masculine food noun unless you have pica)
Tá mé á hithe. (e.g. meat or any feminine noun)
Sentences describing positions or states are formed with the preposition in plus a possessor referring to the subject.
Tá mé i mo shuí. I'm seated.
Tá Maime ina luí. Mom is lying down.
Bhí sé ina sheasamh ansin. He was standing there.
These contrast in meaning with sentences using ag, which would mean that the person is in the act of getting into the position. Tá mé ag suí (síos) I am sitting down (i.e. moving from a standing to a sitting position.) The same structures are used for states of consciousness like i mo chodladh 'asleep' (said of me) and i do dhúiseacht 'awake' (said of you).
The prepositin ar + verbal noun appears in set phrases expressing other states. Meanings may be idiomatic.
Tá an pictiúr ar chrochadh ar an mballa. The picture is hanging on the wall.
Tá sé ar iarraidh. He is missing.
So. Portland is a thing that happened.
(This is actually Irish from about ten days ago but I'm re-posting it now so I have some hope in hell of figuring out where I was when I went on vacation.)
I'm ... not at all sure what to make of what happened. It seems like we made considerable progress being a Thing That Exists as far as Grimm production and cast are concerned? Or maybe a People Who Exist. One of the two. And it was a lot of fun, the other stuff. We saw a Cirque show (Totem), we saw a Delta Rae concert, we had lunch with a friend a couple times, we hit up Powells for an amount of money I am ashamed to speak of (but oh the tasty books I got, except one), we walked all over Portland or at least certain areas of it. Saw a couple outdoor settings. It was, overall, a really productive and relaxing trip. Even if I did get sick for a couple of days, and I'm still trying to shake this cough.
But there's not much in the way of concrete information there about a few vital things, such as how we're received? Does the cast talk about us? We do have reasonable evidence that someone has been talking to them about us, but who? How? In what light? Argh.
Anyway. I'm back. I'm mostly recovered. Recovered enough at least to restart my exercise routine, which, ow. And scaling it up a bit for Dragon*Con, double ow. Although it's hard to say what Dragon*Con will be this year. There's not nearly as many people going who I want to meet as I'd expected. So we'll see how that goes, but at least I'll be fit and look awesome in costumes. And there may be panels. I have to see what various tracks are doing.
Bhí sé do do phógadh. He was kissing you.
Tá siad dár mbualadh. They are beating us.
Tá sí á cur. She is sending it. (e.g. a letter.)
Tá mé á ithe. (e.g. an apple, any masculine food noun unless you have pica)
Tá mé á hithe. (e.g. meat or any feminine noun)
Sentences describing positions or states are formed with the preposition in plus a possessor referring to the subject.
Tá mé i mo shuí. I'm seated.
Tá Maime ina luí. Mom is lying down.
Bhí sé ina sheasamh ansin. He was standing there.
These contrast in meaning with sentences using ag, which would mean that the person is in the act of getting into the position. Tá mé ag suí (síos) I am sitting down (i.e. moving from a standing to a sitting position.) The same structures are used for states of consciousness like i mo chodladh 'asleep' (said of me) and i do dhúiseacht 'awake' (said of you).
The prepositin ar + verbal noun appears in set phrases expressing other states. Meanings may be idiomatic.
Tá an pictiúr ar chrochadh ar an mballa. The picture is hanging on the wall.
Tá sé ar iarraidh. He is missing.
So. Portland is a thing that happened.
(This is actually Irish from about ten days ago but I'm re-posting it now so I have some hope in hell of figuring out where I was when I went on vacation.)
I'm ... not at all sure what to make of what happened. It seems like we made considerable progress being a Thing That Exists as far as Grimm production and cast are concerned? Or maybe a People Who Exist. One of the two. And it was a lot of fun, the other stuff. We saw a Cirque show (Totem), we saw a Delta Rae concert, we had lunch with a friend a couple times, we hit up Powells for an amount of money I am ashamed to speak of (but oh the tasty books I got, except one), we walked all over Portland or at least certain areas of it. Saw a couple outdoor settings. It was, overall, a really productive and relaxing trip. Even if I did get sick for a couple of days, and I'm still trying to shake this cough.
But there's not much in the way of concrete information there about a few vital things, such as how we're received? Does the cast talk about us? We do have reasonable evidence that someone has been talking to them about us, but who? How? In what light? Argh.
Anyway. I'm back. I'm mostly recovered. Recovered enough at least to restart my exercise routine, which, ow. And scaling it up a bit for Dragon*Con, double ow. Although it's hard to say what Dragon*Con will be this year. There's not nearly as many people going who I want to meet as I'd expected. So we'll see how that goes, but at least I'll be fit and look awesome in costumes. And there may be panels. I have to see what various tracks are doing.