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be explaining the words phrases and sentences so you can have a
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text so here it is so i'm going to read down through it
first in its entirety and then i'll go back over it word by
word and sentence by sentence
so let's go back to the start a phríomhoide, a mhúinteoirí, a thuismitheoirí agus a chomhdhaltaí go léir
so that means principal teachers parents and all fellow students so a phríomhoide is
is principal a mhúinteoirí is teachers so múinteoir on its own is a
teacher and then mhúinteoirí is teachers, a thuismitheoirí
is parents and then agus a and the or the rest of, a chomhdhaltaí
go léir so chomh there the first half of that word "c h o m h"
that means fellow go léir means like the rest of them
as in all the other students in the room or the rest of my class let's say
is mise Róisín so that means i am Róisín is mise is i am
and Róisín is a beautiful irish name for a girl
it comes from two words róis which is a rose
and then ín which means little or small so the
the name Róisín literally means a little rose
is mise Róisín i am Róisín agus tá áthas orm deis a fháil so that means i am happy
to have the opportunity or i am happy to have the opportunity
made available so agus is and tá áthas orm means i am happy it literally
means happiness is upon me because in irish
the feelings are upon you deis a fháil so that means deis is
like an opportunity and a fháil is like available and then
labhairt is to speak so like ag labhairt is
speaking so labhairt libh anocht means to be able
to speak to you tonight so libh is like a preposition there
i have made a video on the prepositions
to do with le i'll leave a link in the description if you'd like to check
that out but libh is the preposition which means
you as in a group of you like like a crowded
room or something like that and then anocht just means tonight anocht
ar feadh scaithimh then means for a while or
for the next maybe hour or the next half hour or whatever
it's kind of like ar feadh tamaill it's the same thing so that sentence literally
means there i'm happy to have the opportunity to
speak to you tonight for a little while
ar an gcéad dul síos - that means first of all ar an gcéad dul síos it's like saying the first thing i have
to put down is whatever you're about to say, ar an gcéad
dul síos first of all, caithfidh mé a rá that's a very useful sentence
it just means i have to say or i have to announce caithfidh mé a rá
go bhfuilim neirbhíseach that I am nervous
the im at the end of go bhfuilim there just emphasizes that it's
it's me talking let's say on my own or about myself
agus dá bhrí sin and because of that another really useful little mini phrase
there dá bhrí sin because of that or it could mean hence
or it could mean therefore, tá mé ag impí oraibh
i am imploring you or i am begging you
or i am asking you strongly so impí is like it's kind of like
implore it has a certain similarity there
with the english word implore so hopefully that will make it easier to remember
tá mé ag impí oraibh a bheith foighneach liom
so it's literally saying i am imploring you
to be patient with me or to be understanding of my plight
tá mé ag impí oraibh a bheith foighneach liom
let's move on to this little passage here now again i'll read it out
and then i'll go back over it and explain it word for word
so what that means is there's too much traffic
there and because of that it's noisy there's always traffic jams in the
morning so let's go down through it word by word then
tá an iomarca tráchta ann, so tá an
is like saying the present tense of be so it's like there is at this moment in
time or there is today or there is like at this moment
tá an iomarca tráchta ann- there's too much traffic so
iomarca means too much or excessive and tráchta
is traffic ann means there or in that place let's say agus mar sin
that means and therefore so another really great little phrase
agus mar sin and therefore tá sé an-ghlórmhar so that means in the context
of this sentence it means it's very noisy
or it's very loud ghlórmhar could mean excessive or
it could mean heightened or acute or something like that but
in the context of this sentence we will assume that it's noisy because of the
traffic jams
bíonn tranglaim tráchta ann
so that means there's always traffic jams or there's always traffic buildups
notice the way we use bíonn in there so bíonn is like
it's similar to tá but it's not the same bíonn is like
ongoing as in it does be happening on an ongoing basis be it every hour or
every day or in an ongoing manner
bíonn tranglaim tráchta ann there does be traffic jams there so ann is there
i gcónaí is always or constantly and then ar mhaidin is in the morning ar mhaidin in the morning
let's move on to this little passage
here now again i'll read it out first and then we'll go back over
with some detail
so this sentence literally means it's about time for us to have a
harsh look at this outdated or old-fashioned system
we have in ireland and the problems that come with it
so let's let's go down through it in some detail tá sé
thar am that means so tá sé is it is and then thar am is literally it means
overtime so thar is over you might remember a couple of videos
ago i talked about bóthar and how bóthar is irish for road and it comes
from bó which is cow and thar which is over so it's a place for the cows to
walk over literally that's where the name came from
so thar am means overtime or about time tá sé thar am againn notice againn there the
preposition so it's like referring to us it's about time that we and then the
next word then following on from that súil ghéar means to have a harsh look
or a critical look so súil is to look and then
ghéar there means like to be focused and to be kind of
you know to be have a critical harsh detailed look at the problems
a chaitheamh ar an gcóras seanchaite
so a chaitheamh there it kind of links the sentence well
caith is a great verb it can mean a lot of things again i'll leave a
link in the description for the various meanings of it it can
mean to to smoke and to wear it can mean lots of things it's very
flexible but here it means that we have to have a look like it's
something that we have to do we must do that's where chaitheamh comes
in here ar an gcóras so gcóras is like regime
or system let's say and then seanchaite means old-fashioned so sean is old and
that's where where that phrase comes from
seo atá againn so that means like that what we have here
in Éirinn in ireland and then the next words then agus ar na fadhbanna
that means and the problems so agus is and and
then ar na fadhbanna means the problems
iomadúla then means numerous or many or you know not confined to
one or two let's say a bhaineann leis means associated with it or
that come from it bhaineann and bain are is another great
great word with with lots of flexibility has very very many meanings just like caith
so ar na fadhbanna iomadúla a bhaineann leis means the problems
that are associated with it
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