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Jan. 30th, 2012 08:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeA common way of offering a drink is to ask the equivalent of Will you have a drink? This involves the possessive phrase Tá... ag (has) which you saw in the previous unit, but with future beidh instead of tá. e.g.
Tá deoch agam cheana. I have a drink already.
An mbeidh deoch agat? Will you have a drink?
Beidh. Yes (lit, I will)
Ní bheidh. No.
Note also, using Cad? (What?)
Cad ad bheidh agat? What will you have?
Beidh pionta agam. I'll have a pint.
Vocab:
buidéal - bottle
gloine - glass
leathghloine - half-glass
pionta - pint
leathphionta - half-pint
And of course the next grammar point is the one I just noticed, which is that leath-, half-, causes lenition. Yay pattern recognition!
The numeral aon is used in the sense of 'any.'
Aon scéal? Any news?
An bhfuil aon scéal agat? Do you have any news?
Another way of saying any is to put ar bith (at all) after a word
An bhfuil scéal ar bith agaibh?
It is necessary to use either aon or ar bith when saying that you haven't got something. Notice that aon causes lenition.
Níl aon charr agam. I don't have a car.
Níl aon phost aige. He doesn't have a job.
Níl post ar bith aici. She doesn't have a job.
So, um. The preview for Once Upon A Time in two weeks has me thinking only two things. One, this is going to suck. For once, possibly not in the bad way it's been sucking. And two, I'm pretty sure Robert Carlyle went roaming around other people's back lots looking for more scenery to chew. Goddamn. About this week's Once Upon A Time we will not say a word. It didn't happen, and no one can convince me it did. If plot advanced even in the micrometer steps it seems to be advancing, it did so offscreen where actions happened that no one saw because this week's episode didn't happen. Except for Gold rolling his eyes and sighing his, as Anna called it, "I can't believe I got you elected" sigh. That was pretty priceless.
But I got some stuff done this weekend at least! Some cleaning, a lot of cooking, a good half-batch of minestrone because I didn't have all the veggies for it. A batch of cream of tomato soup with some spinach ground into it because of reasons, I discovered a good marinade in which to soak the beef to make it even more better for stew, and made the stew again, and omfg the whole damn thing was incredibly, incredibly tasty. I am inveencible! And I want more stew. And I cooked up half the chicken, the other half will get cooked up tonight since the rest of Sunday evening was devoted to discovering mold balls the size of golf balls in our bag of rice that we just fucking bought. Ugh.
Not as much writing done over the weekend, but some. Still not quite sure why but it had better damn well quit it, I have shit I need to get done. Still, today may or may not be light once I get the weekend backlog done, there's no incoming to speak of.
Oh, and I've been rewatching New Amsterdam. I'd forgotten how awesome that show was, I kind of miss it now. And Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has the most adorable little accent slips now and again. And now of course I want to write fanfic of it, which, excellent! There's a prompt on Yuletide for it. I tried to floss my brain with that sometime this weekend, it didn't quite work, maybe today.
... Oh. Also, the Muppets are awesome.
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Date: 2012-01-30 02:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-30 02:25 pm (UTC)That said a little more than nothing still isn't all that good.
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Date: 2012-01-30 02:28 pm (UTC)*deep breath* Gyah. Y THEY DO IT TO US?
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Date: 2012-01-30 02:30 pm (UTC)I have no idea. I want to beat him in the face with his own cane.
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Date: 2012-01-30 02:35 pm (UTC)I suspect after next ep I either will want the same, or to have him curl up and hug him until he stops
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