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The ownership structure with le is also used to signal family relationships. Le can be used to indicate the person who bears a particular relationship to some individual.
Cé hé an cailín sin? Who is that girl?
Iníon le Tony Choilín í. She's a daughter of Tony Choilín's
Is uncail liom é. He's my uncle/an uncle of mine.
It is also common to ask one's family connections with the question:
Cé leis thú? What family are you from? (lit, who do you belong to?)
Family resemblance is also expressed with le:
Tá sé cosúil lena athair. He resembles/takes after his father.
Idioms using the 'have' construction with bí...ag are much more common. Frequently possessions of skills and intellectual information are expressed this way.
Tá Gaeilge mhaith agat. You speak (lit. have) good Irish.
Tá neart cainte ag Bríd. Bríd talks a lot.
Tá a fhios agam é. I know it.
An bhfuil snámh aige? Can he swim? (lit Does he have swimming?)
Tá ceol aici. She can play music.
Tá ciall aige. He has sense. (is sensible)
Tá an ceart agat. You are right.
Tá suil agam. I hope... (lit. have an eye...)
Another useful idiom based on súil uses the preposition le, súil functions as a verbal noun, with the meaning 'expect' or 'look forward to'
Tá mé ag suil leis. I'm expecting him/it. I'm looking forward to it.
As in many European languages, certain emotions and physical states (being cold, sick, hungry, etc) are expressed in Irish with a structure meaning 'have', p lus a noun referring to the state (cold, hunger, sickness, etc). Many of these use the preposition ar rather than ag.
Tá áthas orm. I am happy.
Tá brón orm. I am sad.
Tá aiféala orm. I am sorry.
Tá fearg orm. I am angry.
Tá imní orm. I am worried.
Tá ocras orm. I am hungry.
Tá tart orm. I am thirsty.
Tá slaghdán orm. I have a cold.
Tá tinneas cinn orm. I have a headache.
Tá codladh orm. I am sleepy.
Tá deifir orm. I am in a hurry.
Tá iontas orm. I am surprised.
Tá náire orm. I am embarrassed.
Because the words indicating emotions and states are nouns, not adjectives, intensity is expressed by the adjective mór or by quantifiers like go leor, neart.
Tá tart mór orm. I am very thirsty.
Tá imní mór orm. I am really worried.
Tá neart náire orm. I am very ashamed.
The intensifier an- can be prefixed to nouns as an alternative.
Tá an-ocras orm. I'm very hungry.
Some idioms use both ag and ar, the latter indicating what the feeling is about.
Tá meas agam air. I have respect for him.
Tá cion agam ar Bríd. I'm fond of Bríd.
Tá an ghráin agam ar iasc. I hate fish.
Similarly, though not an emotion:
Níl neart agam air. I can't help it. (lit. haven't strength on it.)
Other idioms use either ag or ar and another preposition, often le, but sometimes others.
Tá foighde agat leis na páistí. You are patient with the children.
Tá éad ar Bhríd le Máire. Bríd is jealous of Máire.
Tá faitíos orm roimh mhadraí. I'm afraid of dogs.
Sometimes an adjective structure may alternate with a 'have' + noun idiom, possibly but not necessarily similar in form. In the exmpales below, both forms of expression are commonly heard.
Tá tuirse orm. Tá mé tuirseach. I am tired.
Tá tinneas orm. Tá mé tinn. I am sick.
Tá olc orm. Tá mé cantalach. I am cranky/cross.
For many of the idioms above, however, adjective forms, even if they exist, are rarely used. The idioms listed are the best way to talk about these feelings.
So. Garden things. Item 1: Holy shit I thought I had a lot of tomatoes before, and now there are ten new small tomatoes. That' an estimate, not an actual number, I did not stand there and count all the tiny new tomatoes growing. Also the weight of the tomatoes is pulling down one of the stakes, which means the next step is rebar. Which it turns out is useful for something after all! Item 2: Holy shit peppers. My pepper plants in my beds are finally starting to do something; I might start dropping tea bags in there in the hopes of continuing to fertilize them. And the peppers in the pots? Last I really looked at them on Friday ish they had dropped their flowers, this morning there's a pepperlet slightly larger than my thumb. And at least a couple more that I saw at a distance. Item 3: I really really need to clean out the marigold pots ugh. Item 4: My dahlias, which were so lovely, are starting to droop and fall again. Ah well. It really is hot. Item 5: FUCKING MINT. And fucking weeds in the herb garden. These are not the same thing, there are intended and unintended weeds. I need to harvest the mint again. And dry it better this time. Item 6: Someone smack me if I don't de-caterpillar my porch plants this evening. Item 7: Why did I ever worry about gardening. Jesus.
Item 8: We really, really really need a compost pile. Really a lot. I may just unscrew the damn giant bed and move the whole fucking thing myself this weekend. Or over the course of the week and the weekend. Hell with this.
So. My siblings have been and gone! My house did not get cleaned to my standards. The world did not end. (Everything was clean, just, not everything was tidy. In fact, a lot of things were not tidy. The world still did not end.) I did get stung by a fucking hornet and I hope I tasted awful, and that did put a premature end to the hiking since no one brought either anything for hornets or, in my siblings' case, shoes suitable for hiking up hills. Also the hornets' nest was right in the middle of the fucking narrow trail. Oops. We ended up going back and hiking around downtown Asheville instead and I picked up another non-fiction book I don't need, in this case London: The Biography. It looked interesting, okay? Shut up. Also a place to start for researchings.
Oh dear god I just listed out all the things I'm working on right now to a friend of mine and now I feel like an over achiever. A really overwhelmed over achiever. Dear god I have way too much crap I am currently doing. One. Project. At. A. Time. Or at least a piece of a project at a time. I swear I can do this. Especially now that I don't have to worry about impending siblings. FUCK but I do have to worry about impending Dragon*Con and argh. No, that's a next month problem. Fuckit.
Cé hé an cailín sin? Who is that girl?
Iníon le Tony Choilín í. She's a daughter of Tony Choilín's
Is uncail liom é. He's my uncle/an uncle of mine.
It is also common to ask one's family connections with the question:
Cé leis thú? What family are you from? (lit, who do you belong to?)
Family resemblance is also expressed with le:
Tá sé cosúil lena athair. He resembles/takes after his father.
Idioms using the 'have' construction with bí...ag are much more common. Frequently possessions of skills and intellectual information are expressed this way.
Tá Gaeilge mhaith agat. You speak (lit. have) good Irish.
Tá neart cainte ag Bríd. Bríd talks a lot.
Tá a fhios agam é. I know it.
An bhfuil snámh aige? Can he swim? (lit Does he have swimming?)
Tá ceol aici. She can play music.
Tá ciall aige. He has sense. (is sensible)
Tá an ceart agat. You are right.
Tá suil agam. I hope... (lit. have an eye...)
Another useful idiom based on súil uses the preposition le, súil functions as a verbal noun, with the meaning 'expect' or 'look forward to'
Tá mé ag suil leis. I'm expecting him/it. I'm looking forward to it.
As in many European languages, certain emotions and physical states (being cold, sick, hungry, etc) are expressed in Irish with a structure meaning 'have', p lus a noun referring to the state (cold, hunger, sickness, etc). Many of these use the preposition ar rather than ag.
Tá áthas orm. I am happy.
Tá brón orm. I am sad.
Tá aiféala orm. I am sorry.
Tá fearg orm. I am angry.
Tá imní orm. I am worried.
Tá ocras orm. I am hungry.
Tá tart orm. I am thirsty.
Tá slaghdán orm. I have a cold.
Tá tinneas cinn orm. I have a headache.
Tá codladh orm. I am sleepy.
Tá deifir orm. I am in a hurry.
Tá iontas orm. I am surprised.
Tá náire orm. I am embarrassed.
Because the words indicating emotions and states are nouns, not adjectives, intensity is expressed by the adjective mór or by quantifiers like go leor, neart.
Tá tart mór orm. I am very thirsty.
Tá imní mór orm. I am really worried.
Tá neart náire orm. I am very ashamed.
The intensifier an- can be prefixed to nouns as an alternative.
Tá an-ocras orm. I'm very hungry.
Some idioms use both ag and ar, the latter indicating what the feeling is about.
Tá meas agam air. I have respect for him.
Tá cion agam ar Bríd. I'm fond of Bríd.
Tá an ghráin agam ar iasc. I hate fish.
Similarly, though not an emotion:
Níl neart agam air. I can't help it. (lit. haven't strength on it.)
Other idioms use either ag or ar and another preposition, often le, but sometimes others.
Tá foighde agat leis na páistí. You are patient with the children.
Tá éad ar Bhríd le Máire. Bríd is jealous of Máire.
Tá faitíos orm roimh mhadraí. I'm afraid of dogs.
Sometimes an adjective structure may alternate with a 'have' + noun idiom, possibly but not necessarily similar in form. In the exmpales below, both forms of expression are commonly heard.
Tá tuirse orm. Tá mé tuirseach. I am tired.
Tá tinneas orm. Tá mé tinn. I am sick.
Tá olc orm. Tá mé cantalach. I am cranky/cross.
For many of the idioms above, however, adjective forms, even if they exist, are rarely used. The idioms listed are the best way to talk about these feelings.
So. Garden things. Item 1: Holy shit I thought I had a lot of tomatoes before, and now there are ten new small tomatoes. That' an estimate, not an actual number, I did not stand there and count all the tiny new tomatoes growing. Also the weight of the tomatoes is pulling down one of the stakes, which means the next step is rebar. Which it turns out is useful for something after all! Item 2: Holy shit peppers. My pepper plants in my beds are finally starting to do something; I might start dropping tea bags in there in the hopes of continuing to fertilize them. And the peppers in the pots? Last I really looked at them on Friday ish they had dropped their flowers, this morning there's a pepperlet slightly larger than my thumb. And at least a couple more that I saw at a distance. Item 3: I really really need to clean out the marigold pots ugh. Item 4: My dahlias, which were so lovely, are starting to droop and fall again. Ah well. It really is hot. Item 5: FUCKING MINT. And fucking weeds in the herb garden. These are not the same thing, there are intended and unintended weeds. I need to harvest the mint again. And dry it better this time. Item 6: Someone smack me if I don't de-caterpillar my porch plants this evening. Item 7: Why did I ever worry about gardening. Jesus.
Item 8: We really, really really need a compost pile. Really a lot. I may just unscrew the damn giant bed and move the whole fucking thing myself this weekend. Or over the course of the week and the weekend. Hell with this.
So. My siblings have been and gone! My house did not get cleaned to my standards. The world did not end. (Everything was clean, just, not everything was tidy. In fact, a lot of things were not tidy. The world still did not end.) I did get stung by a fucking hornet and I hope I tasted awful, and that did put a premature end to the hiking since no one brought either anything for hornets or, in my siblings' case, shoes suitable for hiking up hills. Also the hornets' nest was right in the middle of the fucking narrow trail. Oops. We ended up going back and hiking around downtown Asheville instead and I picked up another non-fiction book I don't need, in this case London: The Biography. It looked interesting, okay? Shut up. Also a place to start for researchings.
Oh dear god I just listed out all the things I'm working on right now to a friend of mine and now I feel like an over achiever. A really overwhelmed over achiever. Dear god I have way too much crap I am currently doing. One. Project. At. A. Time. Or at least a piece of a project at a time. I swear I can do this. Especially now that I don't have to worry about impending siblings. FUCK but I do have to worry about impending Dragon*Con and argh. No, that's a next month problem. Fuckit.
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I. Sure, but you ARE coming, anyway, right?
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Okay, okay. *hugs tight * Life is craaazy.
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*nods * Okay, that will work. <3