Category: Grammar

There are two words for “before” in the Irish language, but how do you know which one to use? Sula and roimh both mean “before”, and thankfully, it’s not too….

When looking at cases where one person is being emphasised in relation to another, it is indicated by the use of an emphatic suffix. This is unlike English where you….

Irish adjectives (aidiachtaí) have three declensions, each with the same case structure as the nouns i.e. nominative, vocative, genitive, dative. An adjective is simply a word which describes the noun….

I already wrote about Irish noun genders here but what about nouns and adjectives when they come together? An adjective directly following a noun follows the gender rules relating to….

The imperative is used when giving a direction, an order or telling someone to do something. On the surface that may sound like it’s a rather stern aspect of Irish….

When ordering the food it is important to use the Future Tense form of Bí (to be). However, it’s also important to note that Bí is an irregular verb and….

An Modh Coinníollach (The Conditional Mood) is very straightforward and there’s no need to fear it. To form the conditional mood (technically conditional is not a tense but a mood….

There is no Irish for yes and no. That’s right, there are no all-purpose or generic words in Irish just to mean them. So how do we answer questions in….

In English, comparatives almost always end in the suffix ‘-er’, e.g. bigger, smaller, taller, older. Thankfully, Irish has a system that’s not that difficult to learn. Instead of adding a….