"Seo an t-sràid."

Translation:This is the street.

June 26, 2020

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https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Rowan800494

Can't hear the s of sraid at all, yet it's not lenited so it should be there. Unless this is one of those regional variants....


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Arwasaynemane

It actually is lenited, but that is not reflected in the spelling in the usual way. The combination "t-s..." after the article is just pronounced /t/. If it helps, you could think of it as shorthand for "t-sh...". The historical sequence was d + h (h = lenited s), which together became /t/, so an t-sràid is always pronounced as /əntra:dʲ/ without an /s/.


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Other_Berry

Why does it not accept 'road' for sràid?

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