"Tá im agam."
Translation:I have butter.
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- 1767
As opposed to "táim agam", which is the vaguely nonsensical "I am at me".
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I actually don't understand why she says "eem." I've always heard it pronounced as "ihm," and there's no fada on the i.
Short vowels developed into long vowels in monosyllabic words ending in m,rr,ll,nn.
The spelling of many Irish words reflects their pronunciation in Classical Irish.
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Both the Munster and Connacht examples on teanglann.ie use the long "eem" pronunciation.
I also learned to pronounce im "as written (i.e. "ihm"), and I don't plan to change that, but I guess I need to learn to recognize "eem" when I hear other people say it.
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It has the same Proto-Indo-European ancestor as does Latin unguen (“fat”, “grease”).
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Duo should teach the word butter before throwing it at us, please. Luckily, I guessed correctly!
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Teach us how? We have to have a first encounter somehow. Don't mean to be rude, but genuinely I'm confused by these sort of comments about not having learned a word before we see them in an exercise. Because there aren't any lessons, just exercises.
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By showing the word to us in a set of pictures and having us be introduced to it that way, many are likely to remember better. Pictorial association is stronger than simply reading to learn, for most.
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- 1767
That's the literal translation, but not idiomatic in English.
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I don't think you know how éan is pronounced. é sounds like "ay", not "ee".
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Why only butter ? I have a butter. Is this sentence wrong? Why ? I am Polish and I learn English and Gaeigle
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"butter" is usually considered a "mass noun" in English, so it is not used with an indefinite article.
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As SatharnPHL said, since "butter" is a substance, it is treated as a mass noun rather than a count noun. As such, it only takes the indefinite article when it's divided into units, such as "a stick of butter" or "a pat of butter". Really, the indefinite article refers to the unit rather than the substance.
