Dia dhaoibh,

I still check in here when I can, but haven't posted in ages. It's been a hectic summer. Anyway, we started up a ciorcál comhrá here in Kilkenny, so that's helping me get back into practicing Irish again.

At the moment I'm studying verbs, and seeing how the same verb can be used in different contexts. Here's what I came up with for bain (reap/harvest).

Baint toraidh (picking fruit)
Baint an fhéir (cutting the grass)
Baint taitneamh/úsáid as rud éigean (getting enjoyment/use out of something)
Baint triall as rud éigean (trying something out)
Baint amach (achieving something)
Baint díoltas amach (taking out revenge)
Baint rud éigean ó dhuine (taking something from a person)
Baint do chuid éadaí díot (taking your clothes off)
Baintear siar (taken aback)
Ní bhaineann sé duit (it doesn't concern you)

Are these correct? And does anyone know any other uses for the verb?

I don't think you can use baint on fhéir for cutting the grass- believe thats exclusively for cutting the grass to make hay with a speal (scythe).

Cutting the grass in general is bearradh or gearradh an fhéir.

ag baint an fhomhair- harvesting

There's loads- here's a list of examples: http://www.focal.ie/Search.aspx?term=baint
scroll down to gluaiseanna breise.

Baint amach also means to find (a place)- Bhain mé an pháirc amach- I found the park and I arrived at it.

I'm not sure wether you can use baint amach for finding things:
In this case I would use the verb to come: Tháinig mé ar m' eochracha

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or d'aimsigh mé iad?

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To me, "baint amach" rather means "to reach".

d'aimsigh mé = I found
quite the same as "tháinig mé ar..." and "fuair mé", but aimsigh is rather a Munster verb.
But I think "tháinig mé ar" means "to find something by chance".



it's bain triail (triall is a trip),
and rud éigin (although almost all native speakers use either eicínt or in(t)eacht)

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Agus is í Gaeilg Ġaoṫ Doḃair is binne

Thanks for that input Cionnfhaolach, and to Lugaidh for the spelling corrections. Saoirse, aimsigh is a new word to add to my vocabulary.

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Táim ag foghlaim fós. Fáilte roimh gach aon cheartúchán.

D'fhoglaim mé é ó 'Bran agus an Cháisc' - bhí Bran agus a chara ag lorg uibheacha!

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for example "baint amach" reach home, reach the top of the mountain, reach his goals

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I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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Should have made myself clearer.

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I was translating "baint amach" as "achieving" something, but I suppose it would be better to think of it as "reaching" a goal or "arriving at" a target, as Bríd suggests.

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Táim ag foghlaim fós. Fáilte roimh gach aon cheartúchán.

I wasn't correcting or contradicting you Mick. "Achieving" is a good word too.

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It is recommended that you always wait for three to agree on a translation.
I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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