"Tá bia ag an mbantiarna."

Translation:The lady has food.

4 years ago

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Just a note that this means an actual Lady, as in a Countess or Baroness or the like.

4 years ago

More to the point, it's a compound of 'ban' (woman) + 'tiarna' (lord), and while grammatically masculine (4th declension), it's treated as feminine.

4 years ago

" ... which she distributes to the poor every Thursday. "

2 years ago

So that's why she doesn't run?

8 months ago

Is the eclipsis on mbantiarna the Ulster way, or the Munster+Connacht way? Would the other option be to lenite?

3 years ago

The Ulster way would be to lenite after ag an.

3 years ago