Category: Grammar

When it comes to knowing when to use atá vs a bhfuil, one must consider direct and indirect relatives. I plan on writing a longer piece on direct and indirect….

The Possessive Adjective is the possessive pronouns, such as, ‘my’, ‘your’, ‘her’, and ‘his’, etc. In Irish, their use incurs different changes to the nouns which follow them. Mo, do,….

What does the genitive case mean? What are the differences between nominative and genitive? Good questions! In this article, we’re looking at the genitive. The genitive means “relating to or….

Simple sentences in Irish follow the Verb-Subject-Object (VSO) word order. This means that the verb comes first, followed by the doer of the action, followed by the object on which….

The past tense describes an event which has already happened. You can read my in-depth piece on Irish declensions here. Regular Verbs The regular verbs in Irish come in two….

An Tuiseal Gairmeach or the Vocative Case is used for direct address, terms of endearment, pejorative terms, titles and personal names. You might not be used to this in English….

Before we look at Irish language prepositions, we need to know what prepositions are. A preposition can be a word or group of words used before a noun, pronoun, or….

Tá mé fear. Tá mé múinteoir. These examples are by far the most common mistakes that I come across when interacting with learners. Understanding the copula is fundamental but so….

The Definite Article refers to the (in English), or an or na in Irish. An may cause lenition, whereas na on the other hand, may cause eclipsis, but the only….

Irish has two initial mutations: lenition (séimhiú) and eclipsis (urú). Initial mutations refer to either a change in the initial consonant or the prefixing of a consonant onto an initial….