For other learners:
Redwolf wrote:
An bhfuil do phrintéir déanta as miotal? Suimiúil! Tá mo cheannsa déanta as plaisteach (ach is píosa saor caca é).
Redwolf
(Is your printer made of metal? Interesting. Mine is made of plastic (but it is a cheap piece of shit.)
Nach bhfuil miotal ar bith istigh i do phrintéir ar chor ar bith? Printéir an-spéisiúl atá agat, mar sin.
Caithfidh mé a rá go bhfuil roinnt de na ceisteanna deacair a fhreagairt. Mhachnaigh mé go domhain ar an gceist sin (agus na cinn eile) ag an am.
Má tá ábhar i rud, tá an rud sin "déanta as" an ábhar sin. Sin sin. Is féidir rud a bheith déanta as níos mó ná an t-aon ábhar amháin. Tá mo phrintéir déanta as plaisteach _agus_ miotal. Ní féidir liom a fhreagairt nach bhfuil sé déanta as miotal má tá sé ann, agus tá.
An bhfuil sé déanta as miotal? Tá.
An bhfuil sé déanta as miotal amháin? Níl
(Isn't there any metal in your printer at all? You have a very interesting printer, then.
I have to say that some of the questions were difficult to answer. I thought hard about that question (and the others) at the time.
If a material is in a thing, that thing is "made of" the material. That's the fact. It is possible for a thing to be made of more that just one material. My printer is made of both plastic _and_ metal. I can't answer that something is not made of metal if it is there, and it is.
Is it made of metal? Yes.
Is is made only of metal? No.)
Ar ais chuig an gcluiche: (Back to the game:)
An bhfuil sé déanta as miotal?