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PostPosted: Wed 06 Jul 2016 8:31 pm 
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How do you say - follow me (in the imperative) - lean orm(sa) ?


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PostPosted: Wed 06 Jul 2016 8:36 pm 
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Seems like both Lean mé and Lean dhomsa are used on Potafocal.


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PostPosted: Wed 06 Jul 2016 8:51 pm 
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But isn't - lean mé - the past tense - (I followed) ?


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PostPosted: Wed 06 Jul 2016 9:27 pm 
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franc 91 wrote:
But isn't - lean mé - the past tense - (I followed) ?


It’s both.


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PostPosted: Thu 07 Jul 2016 9:37 pm 
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Go raibh maith agat.


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PostPosted: Fri 08 Jul 2016 2:49 pm 
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franc 91 wrote:
Go raibh maith agat.


I forgot (because I'm usually unable to hear any difference ...)
But in Northern dialects (books say that) there are different /l/ sounds: an unlenited [L´] and a lenited [l´]

Lean mé = Follow me [L´an me]
Lean mé thú = I followed you [l´an me hu]


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PostPosted: Fri 08 Jul 2016 4:46 pm 
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Ceart go leor

Here's another - it's about where to put the emphasis and about the gender.
I want to put this into Irish -
"Well, that's a queer question," was Robin's reply.
To say - THAT'S - should it be - sin é or sin í ? and can I put that at the beginning ? I've seen - Is ceist ionracais é - in spite of the fact that ceist is feminine.


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PostPosted: Fri 08 Jul 2016 6:38 pm 
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franc 91 wrote:
Ceart go leor

Here's another - it's about where to put the emphasis and about the gender.
I want to put this into Irish -
"Well, that's a queer question," was Robin's reply.
To say - THAT'S - should it be - sin é or sin í ? and can I put that at the beginning ? I've seen - Is ceist ionracais é - in spite of the fact that ceist is feminine.


Neither é nor í :)
"That’s A queer question", so no pronoun is necessary.

Sin ceist aisteach. = That’s a queer question.
(or: Ceist aisteach í sin.)

Compare with:
Sin í an cheist aisteach. = That’s the queer question.
(or: Is í sin an cheist aisteach.)


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Go raibh maith agat


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