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- "She has your peaches."
"She has your peaches."
Translation:Tá do phéitseoga aici.
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FYI to whomever keeps track of these things: I hovered over the dotted word "phéitseoga" to check my spelling before submitting the answer, and it did not show the lenition as indicated in this case. I don't know if that's something that's looked at or not.
This is an English to Irish exercise, so there wouldn't have been a dotted word phéitseoga for you to hover over, only the English word "peaches".
The Irish for "peaches" is péitseoga. But the possessive pronoun do lenites the following noun, so "the peaches" is na péitseoga, but "your peaches" is do phéitseoga.
There are a number of rules that trigger Lenition (that extra h after a consonant). In this case, it is caused by the possessive pronoun do.
The reason why lenition exists at all has to do with the way the spoken language developed - lenition made the stream of spoken language smoother.
Ah! I was expecting it to be a grammatical rule!! That makes more sense. Thanks for that.
No.
do is singular - you are only talking to one person.
bhur is plural - you are talking to two or more people.
Why is phéitseoga not in the on-screen translation? I've noticed this about other words as well. It isn't that hard to set it up!
The difference between péitseoga and phéitseoga is like the difference between "peaches" and "Peaches". The Irish for "peaches" is péitseoga, but just as there are particular circumstances that cause you to capitalize the first letter of a word, without changing its meaning, there are particular circumstances that cause you to lenite a word in Irish, without changing it's meaning. One of those circumstances is the possessive adjectives mo and do.
péitseoga - "peaches" - tá péitseoga ar an mbord - "there are peaches on the table"
mo phéitseoga - "my peaches" - tá mo phéitseoga ar an mbord - "my peaches are on the table"
do phéitseoga - "your peaches" - tá do phéitseoga ar an mbord - "your peaches are on the table"
Never eating a peach again. Ni maith liom péitseoga. (it's probably written wrong) hahaha
How does one know when to use "bhur" vs "do"? Where do you find this explained in Duolingo?
How do I navigate to that possessive skill page? I didn't realize those existed and I'm not sure how to get to them from my "Learn" tab.
How come it let me have no fáda i mean they're two different words without the fáda yes?
