"The men read the newspaper and the women eat an apple."
Translation:Léann na fir an nuachtán agus itheann na mná úll.
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When I've heard it it's always been mraw but I've only really heard Northern speakers. scilling's link is good and there is also a site called Forvo for native-speaker pronunciations in various languages.
I'm a native speaker but I've never heard mraw, probably because I learned the standard Irish, in which it's pronounced mnaw, as opposed to any dialect.
Yeah I've never heard that ever and would be super confused! But maybe it's an Ulster Irish thing?
The vast majority of Irish speakers on Forvo aren't natives, however. So always take it with a grain of salt. The only native I know on there is Bríd Éilís
So is there some site with a pronunciation guide for every sound in Gaeilge? I'd rather not be going to forvo everytime I hear a new word.
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If you can read the International Phonetic Alphabet, you can find the sounds in the Wikipedia article on Irish orthography.
I'm guessing this is an apple each? Or are the women collectively eating a single apple. (In other words, is úll referring to each of the women in mná?)
Can 'agus' not be interchanged with 'is'? I have seen it shortened as such before (certainly in Scottish Gaelic at least - maybe it doesn't work the same with Irish).
In school in Ireland it's learned as "agus" initially, then they slowly sneakily just start using is or 's because it's more fluent, easier to say / write, etc.
Na is the definite article for plurals; an is the definite article for singular nouns.
I'm missing something on the articles. Why is it "an nuachtán" and not "an úll"?
an is the singular definite article - "the"
nuachtán - "(a) newspaper", an nuachtán - "the newspaper"
úll - "(an) apple", an t-úll - "the apple"
Why dont they introduce the plural form of apple instead of making a silly sentence like this?
I don't think it's silly at all. While both sentences are ambiguous, I'd normally take "The women ate an apple" to mean that they ate an apple each, while "The women ate apples" would suggest that they each ate more than one apple.
Well, I chose two tranlations for.
The men read the newspaper and the women eat an apple
Léann na fir an nuachtán is itheann na mná úll and Léann na fir an nuachtán agus itheann na mná úll
The system counted it wrong because it only wanted the second but last I knew "is" is a short version of "agus". So why is it wrong that I chose both?
Im getting this sentence right (3 times now) but it keeps saying its incorrect and will not let me move on.
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I've had this question three times in this lesson and each time I haven't been able to complete the sentence because there have been words missing from the selection at the bottom. It's been a different word each time but it prevents me from getting this question right. WTH, Duo?
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