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SYNTAX.

Toiris 30 prab.
Beag naċ mbion nahile daoine
034 ingeall 4 macnaois.

Ta tu po falsa.

Jud ar 4 bain du leir?

Begin instantly.
Almost all young people are
fond of play.
You are very lazy.

Nar ċur se fior 4 a córra ? Did he send for his chest ?

Why did you meddle with it?

Ir liomra an deac morien tall.
Jo de mur da tu?

Thainic se arteaċ 4 an mball.
Ta re a brogus don oldce.
Ba liom é, sul 4 djol me é.
14 zcloistin na széula do.

That great house beyond is mine.
He came in immediately.
How are you?
It is near the night.
It was mine, before I sold it.
When he heard the story.

Druid tu fejn astijan do tij. Shut thyself in thy house.

PREPOSITION.

1. The following prepositions aspirate the nouns that they go

vern; viz. (140)

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Ta se 4 oroč sláinte.

He is in bad health.

Ir majd 140 00 daoinib eile. They are good to other people.

Ce be tjoolacajo fugama o Whatever gift

Dhia.

from God.

we receive

2. Añ, in, and 14r, after, eclipse their nouns; as, (141.) Bhi me a nDún, jar dteact I was in Down, after coming darim o hAlbain.

from Scotland.

* le, with o, from, and 30, to, prefix h to vowels; as, piñe me sin le heagal, I did that through fear; cuajo se 30 heirin, he went to Ireland. (142.)

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3. Chum, to.

Dejr, after.

Fead, throughout.

Fud, among.

Jar, after.

Jonsujo, unto.

Rejr, according.

Timcjoll, about.

And all the expressions, formed by the union of nouns with pre

positions, govern the genitive; as, (143.)

India1g einige na zealaige.

After the moon's rising.

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Bhi me tin 4 read na hojdce. I was sick during the night.

Chuaid si a zcion a hoibre.

Rein tola De.

Ma tig a mac na čujñe.

She went to her work.
According to the will of God.
If his son comes for him.

4. Do, to, governs the dative; and 1011, between, the accusative; as, taba an leabý do na mnaib, give the book to the women.

5. All the other prepositions govern the ablative;

Az, at.

Air, upon.

Añ, in.

Ar, out of.

Chuize, to.

D4, by.

De, of.

Fa, upon, &c.
F401. Fuso, under.

Jan, without.

30 zur, to.

D'eiriż me už rojje la.
Ni faran se 4 ni 4 bit.
Nil morán daoine sárta le na

zcineamnajb.

Ta fad 4 buile fa na rat.

le, lejr, with.

Mar, like to, as.

), ua, from.

Or, above.

Re, rir, to.

Rojije, before.

Seaca, by, in comparison with.

Thar, tairis, over.

Tre, tríd, through.

Um, ujme, about; as.

I rose an hour before day.
It does not fit any thing.
There are not many people

satisfied with their fortunes. They are enraged at his prosperity.

6. Sometimes the government of the preposition is not observed, when 34, each, uile, all, or some such adjective comes before the substantive; as, cuajo fear le gaċ bean aca, a man went with every woman. (144.)

THE CONSTRUCTION OF PREPOSITIONS PROMISCUOUSLY EXEMPLIFIED.

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A ndeiread na hoidce.

Rada sise F401 Dhormnac.

SYNTAX.

In the latter part of the night.

She will go before Sunday.

Bejo si porda faoi dean She will be

bljadna.

Rojtje lujõe na hojdċe.

War mnaoj a blad faoi
dub.

léan As a woman who would be un

Ta si neamacfuinead air She is incapable of telling a

be married before a

year.

Before night fall.

der melancholy.

Bréuz a jñre.

lie.

Bhi rrón cam air Gholl.

Gaul had a crooked nose.

War méarajb fear ag sinim
teud.

Like the fingers of men playing

harps.

Ta rin do réir na piriñe.

That is conformable to the truth.

Ir cormuil le firíñe é.

It is like the truth.

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Sgriobam air uairib le solar I write sometimes by candle

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Ir cormuil le borza snaoisin é. It is like a snuff-box.

Bion si na comnang sa dead She dwells in yonder great house.

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Se sin 4 bealac 30 Baileat- That is the way to Dublin.

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An bruil a fios agad ca air a Do you know whom I love ?
bfuil zean agam ?

Ir 10mia fear rajdbir 341 There is many a rich man with-
ruajmnear.

out tranquility.

Ir beag an sólás san traogal. There is little pleasure in the

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Abain focal no do don 46 - Repeat a word or two of the

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Do deana se riot 4 dtao16 4 He shall make peace concern

God.

peacajd.

Thainic re 30 hAlbash.

ing his sin.

He came to Scotland.

CONJUNCTION.

1. The conjunctions agus, and no, or, na, than, and the like. have the same moods, and cases, after them that go before them; as, amuil mar ata, agus b1, agus bias 30 brat, as it was and is, and shall be for ever; torac an lae agus na hoibre, the beginning of the day and of the work. (145.)

2. Mar as, o, since, rul, before that, má, if, mur, if not, na, than, zur, that, and their compounds, aspirate; as,

Racam lejs ma tig se liñ.

Let us go with him, if he come

with us.

Fażajm bás o coñaire me do Let me die, since I have seen

żnuir.

thy face.

3. 50, that, da, if, muna, if not, nac, that, and their com

pounds, eclipse, and prefix n to vowels; as, (146.)

Deirim 30 drainic re anall. I say that he came over.

Uc nac Bruilio mo brjatra O that my words were now

anoir sgriobta.

Wuna brillead se uaim.

written.

If he had not turned from me.

THE CONSTRUCTION OF CONJUNCTIONS PROMISCUOUSLY EXEMPLIFIED.

Ma cuala du me,

Je zur buail me é.

Je 30 mbuailsin é.

Muna drjucrad aondujne na čujñe.

Clujnim zo bporfar bean aca.

If you heard me.
Although that I struck him.
Although I had struck him,
Unless some one would come
for him.

I heard that one of the women
will be married.
If we could stay.

Da dtjucrad lin fuiread.
Cozás Coin moir agus Chush The war of Eoin the great, and
čéad cata1j.
Conn of an hundred battles.

Ni bruaras blár bio no dige. There was not a taste of meat or

drink found.

Ar an abar sin ruigrid an Therefore shall a man leave his fear a atajn, agus a mati. father and his mother. Ir mo 140 na ir rejoin air-They are more than can be

eam.

numbered.

Ma ta nač Bruil mo tis mar

Although my house be not so

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re ceangal liomra.

with God, yet he hath made a bond with me.

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Moreover by them is thy servant taught.

D'eazal 30 Brusjed sib bar. Lest ye die.

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SYNTAX.

Oir is du is cóir a Faghail.

For you have a right to get it.

Joñar zur séun se a maigistir. So that he denied his master.

Biot 30 bruil du rajdbir.
Je za tu lajdir.

Although you be rich.
Notwithstanding you are strong.

INTERJECTION.

1. The interjection 4, o, requires the vocative; and aspirates the noun next to it; as, a Thiarna De, O Lord God. (147.) 1. Masrg, woe to, and the like, require the dative; as, ma113 Duitse a duine dona, wo to you wretched man. (148.)

THE CONSTRUCTION OF INTERJECTIONS PROMISCUOUSLY EXEMPLIFIED.

Woe is me that I am not!

As truaj naċ bruilım.
Faraor! damojo yle faoi cáin Alas!

don éuz.

death.

we are all subject to

Waing damsa! a bi mo hort. Wo to me! who was silent.

Monuar, is truaige do činea- Alas, hard is your fate!

Mo léan zur dimtis mo Alas that my friends are gone

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Tar an so, a Sheamais.

Come hither, James.

Cirt, elst, mo leanab !

Hush, hush, my child!

cairde uaim!

from me!

journey.

Uč! uč! ca truaige turas. Alas! alas! what a sorrowful

END OF THE GRAMMAR.

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