I didn't say that you couldn't use the copula with location; I simply remarked on the likely cognitive basis for choosing one over the other ('malleable' vs. 'non-malleable')

This could be different depending on the speaker -Everest is hard for most people to climb, but for some mountaineers, it's reletively easy, so how they would speak about it would be different

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Just a side thing, but these are some remarks from Lars Braesicke's on-line grammar:

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By the way, Luke, you asked for corrections - and looking at the thread subject, there is no such word as fád - it is fad (no síneadh fada - and no síneadh fáda either for that matter).

And "leir" is léir...

These aren't just spelling mistakes - because Irish is more phonetic than it seems - spelling words right helps you get the pronunciations right too.

But don't take it personally, Luke -- lots of learners get confused by this. "Long" only has short vowels... it's kind of counterintuitive.

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Fadas can completely change the meaning of things. 'Luigh sí ar an bhféar' is quite different from 'Luigh sí ar an bhfear'. I know we have been here before, but it's always fun to bring up again!

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Luigh sí ar an bhfear ar an bhféar agus bhí sé ag guí ag a gí

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I have another question that hopefully you guys might clear up for me. When forming sentences that include 'to do' sitiuations such as:

'I am going to the shed to clean the fish filter today'.

I have a small issue with the rules as to forming the ending of sentences like this.

Basicly my issue is that I know the 'to do' part of the sentence comes at the end but the 'today' part puzzles me a bit. For example I would say

'Táim ag dul go dtí an bothán do Schagaire iasc a ghlannadh inniu'

but I am unsure if it should be

'Táim ag dul go dtí an bothán do Schagaire iasc inniu a ghlannadh'

which is correct and why? I have a feeling the first one is more correct but I would like it explained why one word comes before the other. The way I understand it is to think of the 'to do' part as like an adjective is used in Irish ie. 'The book dirty' instead of 'the dirty book' by this reason it is the fish filter 'scagaire iasc' that is having the cleaning done to it. This means that part of the sentence is over and the 'today' is now describing the whole sentence?

I hope you can understand that last bit of waffle. I hope I have answered my own question byut I wanted you to see my thought process here and tell me if I am thinking things out completely wrong or not?

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Caithimíd dul siar chun teacht aniar.

Sounds like a difference in emphasis:

I'm going for to clean it today vs. I'm going for today to clean it

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Luke, I don't think anything can go between the verbal noun and a preceding noun object of the verbal noun.

É a dhéanamh (inniu) - you can't say "é inniu a dhéanamh".

Why "do"? In order to is "chun".

I don't believe "iasc inniu a ghlannadh" is possible, because you're breaking up the "iasc a ghlannadh" part.

The question is whether you "(go today)(to clean the fish)" or you "(go)(to clean the fish today)".

I may be wrong -- my Irish is very, very basic.

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