"Tá sí ag úsáid an leabhair."

Translation: She is using the book.

[mjkuecker1965]

She's using it to prop up the short leg. ;)

[kjsoda]

The hint for "leabhair" in this sentence includes "books." Why, then, can this sentence not be translated as "She is using the books?"

[scilling]

An object of a verbal noun that follows the verbal noun is put into the genitive; the genitive singular of leabhar is leabhair. Since the nominative plural of leabhar is also leabhair, the dictionary hints for leabhair includes both “book (genitive singular)” and “books”.

[cmc3.5]

Just in case any one's wondering, the genitive of 'books' is 'na leabhar', so it would be "Tá sí ag úsáid na leabhar" ~ she is using the books

[Marie-Clai133496]

What about " she is using a book", is it " tá sé ag úsáid leabhair?" or "leabhar"

[19O492554]

The genitive of leabhar is leabhair so "She is using a book" is tá sí ag úsáid leabhair.

[TreasaEH]

Does anyone have a link to a Duolingo lesson on the genitive?

[ZuMako8_Momo]

If you type this URL in the address bar (https://duome.eu/username/progress), replacing "username" with your actual username), you will be able to pull up all of the tips & notes from all skills

[Knocksedan]

If you're going the duome.eu route, you might as well just avoid the username step and go straight to https://duome.eu/tips/en/ga

[John357074]

Ní féidir leat léamh ón leabhar!