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Expressing of, e.g. a cup of tea (aka, apparently, the genitive case, since this book seems to not have been written for people who have already studied many foreign languages.) In this relationship the second word is put in the genitive case.

gloine (glass) + fíon (wine) = gloine fíona (a glass of wine)
mó´rán (a lot) + am (time) = mórán ama (a lot of time)

There are various ways of forming the genitive case, and the most important of these will be described below. If a word does not have a genitive case (e.g. nouns that end with a vowel) word order is sufficient to show the 'of' relation:

cupán (cup) + tae (tea) = a cup of tea

Ownership and kinship are expressed by using this pattern (so in Irish John's house will become something like house of John). Personal names are lenited if they begin with a consonant.

teach Áine - Anne's house (unchanged)
teach Mháire - Mary's house (lenited)
teach Sheáin - John's house (lenited and in genitive)

1. A broad consonant at the end of a masculine noun becomes slender.
eolas, pointe eolais (a point of information)
pórtar, pionta pórtair (a pint of stout)
Seán, muintir Sheáin (John's parents)

2. Add a to a masculine noun
fíon, buidéal fíona (a bottle of wine)

3. Add e to a feminine noun
seachtain, deireadh seachtaine (end of the week)

4. Replace ach with igh in masculine nouns
leathanach, bun an leathanaigh (the bottom of the page)

5. Replace ach with í in feminine nouns
báisteach, mórán báistí (a lot of rain)

6. Make the final consonant of a feminine noun broad and add ach
an bheoir, pionta beorach (a pint of beer)

Most words which end in a vowel remain unchanged in genitive case
glione branda, a glass of brandy
gloine uisce, a glass of water
cupán caifé, a cup of coffee
leathghloine uisce bheatha, a half-glass of whiskey

So, I'm definitely going to have to review that Irish because half of it was spent hearing it in Carlyle's thick Scots accent, which is completely the wrong languages although the right family, and the other half was giggling over "uisce." Also half of the Irish word for whiskey, for those of you who didn't know.

Feel somewhat better after a good night's sleep, anyway. Even if I did have this weird dream about some sort of biker who looked a bit like Billy Drago and had four eyes. Or rather, had two eyes, since two of the four were glass eyes implied to have looked normal originally (except for there being TWO OF THEM) but he declined the offer of realistic glass eyes and went for creepy red and black ones. Four eyes. Two where they would normally be placed and two about half-sized ones to the outer sides of his orbital sockets. Apparently I found either his or a friend of his' old Harley Davidson watch, and returned it to him despite it being an awesome watch that I wanted to keep. In my dream I found the eyes perfectly normal, and the bikers were cuddly. Now that I'm awake that is going straight into Black Ice.

Going to the bank to talk about house stuff today. This probably should make me more nervous or something, but mostly I'm just tired and impatient and want this to be over.