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PostPosted: Tue 27 Aug 2013 4:34 pm 
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Can anyone tell me what the difference is between (if any)
Tá a fhios agam and Is fios dom ?

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PostPosted: Tue 27 Aug 2013 6:00 pm 
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Well there is a subtle difference between Is eol dom and Tá a fhios agam,
but I've never heard or read Is fios dom in native speech or writings before, where
did you find it?

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PostPosted: Tue 27 Aug 2013 6:18 pm 
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Tá a fhios agam / Is fios dhom / Is fios liom. An rud céadna dá ríribh, ach tá's 'am amháin I gConamara.


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PostPosted: Tue 27 Aug 2013 8:02 pm 
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I hadn't heard it myself, i came across it in the Cork Irish dictionary , page 372, under Fios.

Seaghan are you saying Is fios liom is a Connemara version ?

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Dáithí Mac Giolla. wrote:
I hadn't heard it myself, i came across it in the Cork Irish dictionary , page 372, under Fios.

Oh!, in that case I read it and forgot it, since I've read Mo Sgéal Féin! Stupid me! :facepalm:

From doing a bit of reading, it seems that Is fios dom was the original version of the phrase, which used the copula. There
are a few phrases like this that switched over from being used with Is to being used with Tá.

EDIT: I should say that since I've never heard this phrase spoken, I'm not aware of any distinction between them. Although
it is likely they mean the same thing, seeing as how they are just Tá/Is variants, as often occurs in the language.

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PostPosted: Wed 28 Aug 2013 9:35 am 
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Dáithí Mac Giolla. wrote:
I hadn't heard it myself, i came across it in the Cork Irish dictionary , page 372, under Fios.

Seaghan are you saying Is fios liom is a Connemara version ?


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PostPosted: Wed 28 Aug 2013 8:09 pm 
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Personally I'd say -

Tá's 'am (Tá a fhios agam) - I know

Go bhfios dhom/dom - As far as I know.

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PostPosted: Thu 29 Aug 2013 8:11 am 
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I always thought it was

Tá's agam. or something along those lines.

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Dáithí Mac Giolla. wrote:
I always thought it was

Tá's agam. or something along those lines.
The 'g' in 'agam' tends to be pronounced in Munster not in Conamara. The Ulster folk probably do something whacky! :mrgreen:

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