"Bhur n-arán."
Translation:Your bread.
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Then you must have Munster Irish. In Connaught/Ulster Irish it seems it's pronounced with the W sound. You can listen to them here.
bhur = your (plural) so when it's the plural form it causes the noun following it to have a prefix. When the noun starts with a vowel the prefix used is n with a hyphen, hence ár n-arán, bhur n-arán, a n-arán for our/your/their bread.
When the noun starts with a consonant the prefix used depends on the consonant. Some examples: ár mbuachaillí, ár gcailíní, ár bhfeachtas, ár nglasraí, ár bpiobaire, ár dteanga.
It looks to me as if the quality of the prefix depends on the articulatory traits of the following consonant (the initialconsonant of the determined noun) whether it is labial, dental, velar, etc... What part of the mouth or tongue or lips is involved. Am I right?
Bhur = your (plural).
Do (your, singular) before a noun beginning with a vowel is combined with the noun like so: d'arán.
No.
bhur = "your" (plural form) as in "your names, your house".
do = "your" (singular form) as in "your name, your house".
Thank you for your answer. In my understanding the "n-" is corresponding in a way to the "na" with "bhur" just before. That's why I was talking about a double A. Because in this particular case it was before "arán". I'm struggling to understand "Bhur" in my language the plural possessive we add a "S" or "X" at the end of both words. Like in english in fact it will be "Yours breads".
There is no na. If two people live in a house together, you would refer to that one, single house as "your house" in English, not "your houses", and you would say bhur dteach in Irish, not bhur dtithe.
You would only say "your houses" and bhur dtithe if you were referring to multiple houses (either one house each or mutiple houses owned individually or together).
But with a mass-noun like "bread", you don't usually refer to individual bread rolls (for example) or slices of bread as "breads". "Breads" in English is almost never used unless you are referring to multiple kinds of bread - "The bakery sells various different breads - Italian, rye, sourdough, wholegrain". It would be considered odd to use "breads" to refer to individual bread rolls that each diner at a table might get.
Either way, you don't use a definite article, an or na or "the", with a possessive adjective, in Irish or in English, whether referring to a "mass noun" like "bread" or a countable noun like "house". It's "my bread" or m'arán, not "my the bread" or m'an arán.
Because bhur is a plural possessive adjective, and plural possessive adjectives eclipse nouns that start with an eclipsable consonant, and cause an n- prefix for nouns that start with a vowel.
https://www.duolingo.com/skill/ga/Possessives/tips-and-notes