"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.
In the other languages, if one hovers one finds the correct form of the word. The choice pheitseoga should be give here in the hover over. It is one of the discouraging lacks in the Irish course.
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.
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"
No.
do is singular - you are only talking to one person.
bhur is plural - you are talking to two or more people.
Never eating a peach again. Ni maith liom péitseoga. (it's probably written wrong) hahaha
Why does aici become ici here? The prompts suggested aici for "she has". It didn't hint at ici at all.
anmhor is right, the first suggestion is "Tá bhur bpéitseoga ici", instead of "Tá bhur bpéitseoga aici"...
Again I ask, where are you seeing this? Where are you seeing a suggestion for the whole phrase rather than individual hints on each word?
I was referring to the sentences that appear in the correction. The first sentence is "Tá bhur bpéitseoga ici", the second one is "Tá do phéitseoga aici"
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This just happened to me. Lenition skill, February 20 2022, Duolingo says "aici" is a typo and suggests "ici" instead.
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The only place I am seeing ici is in the incorrect answers on multiple choice questions. Emphasis being, they're incorrect.
In Irish, the prepostions are combined with person pronouns, so "ag mé" becomes agam, "ag tú" becomes agat, etc. aici is "ag í" - literally "at her", but in this particular construction (combined with the verb bí) it means "She has".
Irish doesn't use the verb "have" to indicate possession - it uses the structure Tá X ag Y to say that "Y has X" - Tá X aici is "She has X"
this needs a correction. If you use bhur instead of do, it wants you to use ici instead of aici.
Why doesn't bhur, instead of do, work here, as well? Should I report this?
Oh boy - that's confusing. I really need some help on eclipsis and lenition. As an American English speaker, who's never learned another language before, those concepts are really difficult for me.
cuid could be used, but it requires the use of the tuiseal ginideach, the genitive case - do chuid péitseog.
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?
