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Beag nać mbioñnahr;le daoine
oga ingeall 4 ṁacnaois.
Ta tu ro falsa.
Gud as 4 bain tu leis ?
Nar cr fe fios 4 a cófra
Is liomsa an teaċ mor}fn tall.
Go de mur ta TU ?
Thainic se asteaċ 4 an mball.
Ta se a brogus don oidċe.
Ba liom é, sul 4 diol me é.
14 gcloistin na sgéula do.
Druid tu fein astiż añ do tiż.

Begin instantly.
Almost all young people are
fond of play.
You are very lazy.
Why did
you meddle with it?
Did he send for his chest?
That great house beyond is mine.
How are you
?

He came in immediately.
It is near the night.

It was mine, before I sold it.
When he heard the story.
Shut thyself in thy house.
PREPOSITION.

1. The following prepositions aspirate the nouns that they go

Is wait had de daoinib eile. They are good to other people.
Ce be tjodlacajd fugamą o Whatever gift we receive
Dhia.
from God.

2. Añ, in, and jan, after, eclipse their nouns; as, (141.) Bhi me a nDún, jar dteaċt I was in Down, after coming daṁ o hAlbain. from Scotland.

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

3. Chum, to.

Dejr, after.

Fead, throughout.

Fuo, among.

Jan, after.
Joñrujo, unto.
Rein, according.
Timcioll, about.

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

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

Índiaiż eiriże na gealaiże.

After the moon's rising.

Bhi me tiñ 4 fead na hojdċe. I was sick during the night.

Chuaid si a gcioñ a hoibre.

Reir bola De.

Ma tig a mac na ċuiñe.

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

4. Do, to, governs the dative; and joir, between, the accusative; as, tab4 an leabą do na mnajb, give the book to the women. 5. All the other prepositions govern the ablative;

D'eiriz me u roiṁe la.
Ni faran se 4 mi 4 bit.
Nil morán daoine sásta le na
gcineaṁnaib.

Ta had 4 buile fa na rat.

le, lejr, with.

Mar, like to, as.

0, ua, from.
Or, above.

Re, ris, to.

Rojme, before.

Seaca, by, in comparison with.

Thar, tairis, over.

Tre, trio, through.
Um, ujme, about; as.

I rose an hour before day.
It does not fit any thing.
There are not many
not many people
satisfied with their fortunes.
They are enraged at his pros-
perity.

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

THE CONSTRUCTION OF PREPOSITIONS PROMISCUOUSLY EXEMPLIFIED.

A ndeiread na hojdċe.
Raċa sise faoi Dhoṁnać.
Beid si pósda faoi
bliadna.

Roiṁe luide na hoidċe.

Mar ṁnaoi a biad faoi dub.

ceañ

In the latter part of the night.
She will go before Sunday.

She will be married before a

year.
Before night fall.

léan As a woman who would be under melancholy.

Ta si neaṁacfuineaċ air She is incapable of telling a bréuz a iñse.

Bhi srón cam air Gholl.

lie.

Gaul had a crooked nose.

Mar ṁéaraib fear ag sinim Like the fingers of men playing

Teud.

Ta sin do réir na firiñe.

Ir cormuil le firíñe é.

harps.

That is conformable to the

truth.

It is like the truth.

Sgriobam air uairib le solas I write sometimes by candle

coindle.

light.

Ir cormuille bosga snaoisin é. It is like a snuff-box.

Bioñ si na coṁnaiż sa teać She dwells in yonder great house. ṁór ud.

Se sin a bealaċ 30 Bajleat- That is the way to Dublin. cljaż.

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

Is iomda fear saidbir gan There is many a rich man withsuaimhneas.

Is beag an sólás san tsaożal.

Is le na natair é.

Ta beoir a dtig is aguibre. Ni raibeamar a caint fod atairse.

Ni lem toil a pos si é.

Ta mac san arm aige. Abair focal no do don ráin.

Ameasg mac na sagairt.

out tranquility.
There is little pleasure in the
world.

It is their father's.
There is beer in your house.
We were not speaking about
your father.

It was not with my will that she
married him.

He has a son in the army. ab- Repeat a word or two of the song. Among the sons of the priests. We have sinned

Do peacamairne anażaid De.

God.

against

Do deana se sjot a dtaojb a He shall make peace concern

Peaċajd.

Thainic se 30 hAlbaiñ.

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, aṁuil mar ata, agus bi, agus bias go brat, as it was and is, and shall be for ever; tosaċ 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, gun, that, and their compounds, aspirate; as,

Raċam leis ma ¿ig se liñ.

Let us go with him, if he come with us.

Fażaim bás o coñairc me do Let me die, since I have seen

gnuis.

thy face.

3. 50, that, da, if, muna, if not, naċ, that, and their compounds, eclipse, and prefix n to vowels; as, (146.)

Deirim go dtainic se anall. I say that he came over.

Uċ naċ bfuilid mo briatra O that my words were now

anoir sgriobta.

Muna bfillead se uaim.

written.

If he had not turned from me.

THE CONSTRUCTION OF CONJUNCTIONS PROMISCUOUSLY EXEMPLIFIED.

Ma ċuala tu me,

Ge zur buail me é.

Ge go mbuailfiñ é.

Muna dtiucfad aonduine na čujne.

Cluinim go bposfar bean aca.

Da dtiucfad liñ fuireaċ.

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.

Cogád Eoin moir agus Chuiñ The war of Eoin the great, and ¿ÉAD ĊATAIŻ. Conn of an hundred battles. Ni bfuaras blás bid no dige. There was not a taste of meat or drink found.

Ar an abar sin fuigfid an Therefore shall a man leave his fear a atair, agus a ṁatą. father and his mother. Is me iad na ir feidir air- They are more than can be

eam.

Ma ta naċ bfuil mo tiġ mar
sin ag Dia, gidead do riñe
se ċeangal liomsa.
Leo for teagasgtar do jear-
bfożantuid.

D'eagal zo bfuiged sib bás.

numbered.

Although my house be not so
with God, yet he hath made a
bond with me.

Moreover by them is thy ser-
vant taught.
Lest ye die.

Oir is tu is cóir a faghail.

For you have a right to get it. Joñas zur réun se a ṁaiżistir. So that he denied his master. Biot go buil tu saidbir. Although you be rich.

Ge da tu laidir.

Notwithstanding you are strong.

INTERJECTION.

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

THE CONSTRUCTION OF INTERJECTIONS PROMISCUOUSLY EXEMPLIFIED.

Woe is me that I am not!

As truaż naċ bfuilim. Faraor! tamoid le faoi cáin Alas! we are all subject to don éuz.

death.

Mairg damsa ! a bi mo host. Wo to me! who was silent.
Monuar, is truaiże do ċinea- Alas, hard is your fate!