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The construction of prepositions promiscuously exemplified.

Suid inaice an tsoluis, Seasam os cuinne an dorais,

Na tar am amarc, Na bi a mbaile mor, no a gcaislean, gan bean air do leitsgeul, Rinne me so le heagal, Ceitre troige air doimneaċd,

Chuaid se fan mbaile,

Chuaid se cum an baile, Chuaid si agcuinne mine, A ndeiread na hoidċe,

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Rača sise faoi Dhomnac, Beid si pòsda faoi ceann bliadna,

Roime luide na hoidċe,

Mar mnaoi a biad faoi

lean dub,

Ta si neamacfuinea cair breug a innse, Bhi sròn cam air Gholl, Mar mèaraib fear ag sinim teud,

Ta sin do réir na firinne,

Is cosmuil le firinne è, Sgriobam air uairib le solas coindle, Is cosmuil le bosgasnaoisin è, Bionn si na gcominaig sa teać mòr ud,

Sit near the light. Stand opposite the door.

Do not come into my sight. Be not in a city or castle without a woman to befriend you.

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I did this for fear.
Three feet in depth.

He went throughout or
about the town.
He went to the town.
She went for meal.
In the latter part of the
night.
Shewill go before Sunday.
She will be married be-
fore a year.
Before night fall.
As a woman who would
be under melancholy.
She is incapable of telling
a lie.

Gaul had a crooked nose.
Like the fingers of men
playing harps.
That is conformable to
the truth.

It is like the truth.
I write sometimes by can
dle light.
It is like a snuff-box.

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Se sin an bealać go Baile-
at-cliat,
An bfuil a fios agad ca
air a bfuil gean agam?
Is iomda fear saidbir gan
suaiṁneas,

Is beag a solas san tsao-
gal,

Is le na natair è,
Ta beoir a dtig is aguibse,

Ni raibeamar a caint fad
atairse,

Ni lem toil a pòs si è,

Ta mac san arm aige, Abair focal no do don amran,

Ameasg mac na sagairt,

Do peacamairne anagaid
De,

Do deana se siot a dtaoib
a peacaid,
Thainic se go hAlbainn,

That is the way to Duo lin.

Do you know whom I love?

There is many a rich man
without tranquillity.
He has 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. Repeat a word or two of

the song.
Among the sons of the
priests.

We have sinned against
God.
He shall make peace con-
cerning 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 bi, agus bias go bratac, as it was, and is, and shall be for ever; tosac an lae agus na hoibre, the beginning of the day and of the work. (145.)

2. Mar, as, o, since, sul, before that, ma, if, mur, if not, na, than, gur, that, and their compounds, aspirate; as,

Raċam

Račam leis ma tig se linn, Fagaim bàs, o connairc me do gnuis,

3. Go, that, da, if, and their compounds, vowels; as, (146)

Deirim go dtainic se anall,

Uc nac bfuilid mo briat

ra anois sgriobta, Muna bfillead se uaim,

Let us go with him, if
he come with us.
Let me die, since I have
seen thy face.

muna, if not, nac, that, eclipse, and prefix n to

I say that he came over.

O that my words were now written.

If he had not turned from me.

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Although I had struck him. Unless some one would come for him. I hear that one of the women will be married. If we could stay.

The war of Eoin the great, and Conn of an hundred battles. There was not a taste of

meat or drink found. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother.

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Is mo iad na is feidir aiream,

Ma ata naċ bfuil mo tig mar sin ag Dia, gidead do rinne se ceangal liomsa,

Leo fos teagasgtar do searbfogantuid, D'eagal go bfuigead sib bas, Oir is tu is còir a faghail,

fonnas gur seun se a maigistir,

Biod go bfuil tu saidbir,

Ge ta tu laidir,.

They are more than can be numbered. Although my house be not so with God, yet he hath made a covenant with me. Moreover by them is thy servant warned. Lest ye die.

For you have a right to get it. So that he denied his

'master.

Although you be rich. Notwithstanding you are strong

INTERJECTION.

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1. The interjection a, o, requires the vocative; and aspirates the noun next to it; as, a Thiarna De, O Lord God. (147.)

2. Mairg, wo 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.

As truag naċ bfuilim.
Faraor! tamoid uile faoi
cáin don eug,
Mairg damsa! a bi mo
tost,

Monuar, is truag do
ċineamuin!

Tar an so, a Sheamais,
Eist, eist, mo leanab!
Mo lean gur imtiġ mo
ċairde uaim!
Uċ! uċ! ca truaige tu-

ras.

Wo is me that I am not! Alas! we are all subject to death.

Wo to me! who was silent.

Alas, hard is your fate!

Come hither, James.
Hush, hush, my child!
Alas that my friends are
gone from me!
Alas! alas! what a sore
rowful journey.

END OF THE GRAMMAR.

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