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The verb 'to be' in questions:
Replace tá with an bhfuil (pron. un wil?). There are no words for yes and no in Irish, and the reply echoes the verb instead (without its pronoun).

An bhfuil sé deacair? Is it difficult?
Tá. It is.
Níl. It isn't.

An bhfuil Siobhán istigh? is Joan in?
Tá. Yes. (Lit. Is.)
Níl. Tá sí amuigh. No. (Lit. Is not.) She's out.

An bhfuil tú i do chónaí i Luimneach. Do you live in Limerick?
Tá. Yes.
Níl. Tá mé i mo chónaí i bPort Láirge. No. I live in Waterford.


The preposition i (in)
This is pronounced like the a in about. It causes eclipsis of a following consonant.
Tá mé i mo chónaí i gCorcaigh (pron. gorkuig)
Tá mé i mo chónaí i dTrá Lí (pron. drá lí)
Tá mé i mo chónaí i mBéal Feirste (pron. mél fershte)
Tá mé i mo chónaí i nDoire (pron. nuire)
Tá mé i mo chónaí i gContae na Mí (pron. gontae na mí)
Tá mé i mo chónaí i dteach mór.

If the following word begins witha vowel, i becomes in:
Tá sé ina chónaí in árasán.

Éire becomes Éirinn after prepositions, e.g.
Tá sí ina cónaí in Éirinn.



I'm having one of those "OMG I'm learning Irish" moments again. Which is probably good because after the first three lessons I'm going to need buckets of review to keep this in my head. Plus pronunciation review.

So. I spent most of this weekend asleep or playing stupid video games, which is probably just what I needed. I managed not to go nuts over the fact that the apartment isn't clean, my stuff wasn't getting written, I just sat back and relaxed and slept a lot and now I feel better. I still have no idea what I'm going to do about, well, anything that I still have to do stuff about, but all I have to do is survive this week and the resultant craft fair plus trade fair at the end of it. And then it'll be okay.

And, you know. Slowly getting back on the routines, exercise, languages, sleep, guitar, I've got music theory lessons coming up, day job. Knitting projects. Work type work. Lots of, although at least today, still not much incoming. Probably a lot of outgoing. And packing for the show. And. Ugh. Want another weekend day to clean and write and so on. Then again, I'd probably just spend that half asleep, too. A little bit of each at a time.