"Tá mo mháthair feargach mar is duine mímhacánta mé."

Translation: My mother is angry because I am a dishonest person.

[mpbell]

"Mímhacánta" seems to violate the slender with slender rule following its first vowel.

[galaxyrocker]

It's a compound word, with mí- as a prefix.

[scilling]

Prefixes such as mí- don’t necessarily follow the rule when crossing into the modified word.

[mpbell]

Thanks! So is the mh considered broad or slender?

[galaxyrocker]

Broad. it's based off the root word.

[jstamper]

Can't it be assumed that I am a person? I wrote, "My mother is angry because I am dishonest."

[mpbell]

Since the word duine/person is in the sentence, it needs to be translated. Without that word, one could say "...mar táim mímhacánta."

[Eclectic1234]

I understand that we're learning adjectives here, but could someone tell if one is more common than the other: Tá mo mháthair feargarch or Tá fearg ar mo mháthair.

[Shivaadh]

Why is the 'á' in mímhacánta not making the 'aw' sound like in mháthair? Was I mistaken in believing that 'á' is always pronounced like in mháthair?

[19O492554]

Listen to it more carefully. The á is "making the 'aw' sound like in mháthair".

[mloci]

Shouldn't it be "mar is mé duine mímhacánta" because the subject is 1st person pronoun?

[19O492554]

No, it should not. The copula is a bit more complex than that.
https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/7068975

[mloci]

1st/2nd subject precedes predicate in identification sentences but follows in classificatory sentences, right?

[19O492554]

That's not the terminology that I use, so I can't agree or disagree.

http://www.nualeargais.ie/gnag/kopul1.htm

[Ruairi_OTuathail]

Tnx for this I asked in a different exercise for info on the copula so this helps :)

[PJMEnZ]

?? How is that wrong?

[PJMEnZ]

Letter for letter, word for word and it still says I am wrong.