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February 08 2010, 21:53 PM

i didn't know..thanks....haven't done irish since the leaving...yrs and yrs ago...just trying to get back to it since we are sending my son to irish school... :-)

February 08 2010, 21:59 PM

That's wonderful! We're here any time you want help with the language.

February 08 2010, 23:09 PM

Here we go... it was Richie who supplied this tip:

"There's a simple trick I figured out to know if you need "cuid" or not. If you can say, in English, "I have a X" then in Irish you can say "mo X". "I have a car," for example, is fine, so "mo charr" is too. But you can't say "I have a clothes" or "I have a hair" (well you can but it doesn't mean the same thing as "I have hair") so you have to say "mo chuid éadaigh" and "mo chuid gruaige."

February 09 2010, 2:47 AM

mhwombat wrote:Here we go... it was Richie who supplied this tip:

"There's a simple trick I figured out to know if you need "cuid" or not. If you can say, in English, "I have a X" then in Irish you can say "mo X". "I have a car," for example, is fine, so "mo charr" is too. But you can't say "I have a clothes" or "I have a hair" (well you can but it doesn't mean the same thing as "I have hair") so you have to say "mo chuid éadaigh" and "mo chuid gruaige."

Ah, okay, that's another way of saying use cuid with "plurals and uncountables" (i.e., those nouns that can't (or don't normally) take "a" or "an" before them). :zustimm:

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