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Preface
Phonetics

exercise CXV

§ 651. Cia leis . .. whose? as cia leis an áit? To whom does the place belong? Cia leis an páisde sin? Whose child is that?

§ 652. Féin (faen), self, mé féin, tú féin, sé féin; liom féin, leat féin, etc. When placed thus after pronouns is it often aspirated, as if it formed a compound word with the pronoun; mé-ḟéin (mae haen). But mé féin had better be used.

§ 653. With the possessives mo, do, etc, féin = own. Note the order of the words: mo ṫír féin, my own country; do ḃean féin, thy own wife; a ċeann féin, his own head; a súil féin, her own eye; ar dteaċ féin; our own house. ḃúr n-áit féin, your own place; a bpáisde féin; their own child.

§ 654. Translate into English

• Is maith an t-súil atá ag an bhfear sin.
• Is folláin an áit í so.
• Is linn féin ar dtír féin.
• Nach libh féin bhur dtír féin?
• Is linn, go deimhin; acht ní'l teach ná tí againn anois, atámuid ar seachrán ó n-ar dtír féin.
• Bhí sinn saidhbhir fad' ó, aht atámuid bocht anois.
• Cá raibh Domhnall indé? Bhí sé ar an aonach.
• Cia an t-aonach? Aonach Bhaile an Átha.
• An raibh capall aige? Bhí, agus thug sé capall eile a bhaile leis, acht ní leis féin an capall sin.
• Chuaidh Art a bhaile indiu.

§ 655. Translate into Irish

• I am in a great hurry, give me that horse, he belongs to me.
• Donald has his own story, and Nora has her own story.
• That bag is mine. It is not mine, that is my own bag.
• Your bag is below on the road.
• Whose is that land? The land is Michael's, but the cow and the calf are John's.
• John bought that horse and that mare at the fiar.
• This country is not ours now.
• Is this little horse your own? No; it is my father's.

note that
phonetic
symbols
are not
necessarily pronounced
as in English

See § 13-16