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An Chopail gan Choinne
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Ag bailiú na n-abairtí ina bhfuil an chopail i ngan fhios dá n-údaraibh féin.

Acmhainní:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZPLrZ2lP7A
https://www.celtic-languages.org/Guide_to_Irish_to_be
https://archive.org/details/studiesinmoderni01onol/page/n18
Trá An Clochán
‘Clifden is a beach’

S: An Clochán ‘Clifden’
P: trá ‘a beach’
November 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
‘Ireland’s Television is a Radio’

S: Teilifís Éireann ‘Ireland’s Television’
P: Raidió ‘(a) Radio’

Nílimíd in inmhe an ainm a thuiscint in aon slí nách abairt chopaile í.
October 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Teach Mo Chara
‘My Friend is a House’

S: Mo Chara ‘My Friend’
P: Teach ‘a House’
October 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Iarnóin maith!
‘Goodness is an afternoon!’

S: maith ‘goodness, a good thing’
P: iarnóin ‘afternoon’
October 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Óstán bealach isteach
‘An entrance is a hotel’

S: bealach isteach ‘a way inside, entrance’
P: óstán ‘a hotel’
October 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Leabhar Gaeilge liom

‘An Irish book of mine’ an bhrí ba thúisce a tuigfí as san ach is féidir ciall chopaileach a bhaint as leis:

‘a Gaelic language of mine is a book’

S: Gaeilge liom ‘a Gaelic [language] of mine’
P: leabhar ‘a book’
September 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Ní hábhair é a chara.
‘His friend is not subjects.’

S: (é) a chara ‘his friend’ (agus fo-ainmní ann)
P: ábhair ‘subjects, matters’ (iolra den fhocal ‘ábhar’)
Copula: ní (an fhoirm dhiúltach)

‘ní ábhair’ a bheadh ceart de réir an chaighdeáin, ach is sine an nós ‘h-’ a chur tar éis ‘ní’ na copaile
June 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
An Túr Solas?
‘Is Light a Tower?’

S: Solas ‘Light’
P: Túr ‘a Tower’
copula: an …? (the interrogative form)
December 16, 2024 at 11:32 AM
#SpéirGorm
‘A green-blue colour is sky’

Subject: Gorm ‘(An instance of) green or blue colour (of some specific object)’
Predicate: Spéir ‘Sky’

#BluecolourIsSky
November 27, 2024 at 3:00 PM
sr. Beag Liam
‘William’s Smallness is a street’

S: sr[áid] ‘a street’
P: Beag Liam ‘William’s Little Amount, William’s Smallness’
October 12, 2024 at 7:36 PM
Ionaid bialanna beir leat sa Chathair
‘Take-away restaurants in the City are places’

P: Ionaid ‘places’
S: bialanna beir leat sa Chathair ‘take-away restaurants in the City’
October 12, 2024 at 7:35 PM
Turas d’anam
‘thy soul is a journey’

S: turas ‘journey’
P: d’anam ‘thy soul’

B’fhearr linn ‘t’anam’ le t’ neamhghlórach áfach. Is féidir tuiscint eile a bhaint as ‘d’anam’ leis: an réamhfhocal ‘do’ + ‘anam’ (‘a journey for a soul’).
October 12, 2024 at 7:35 PM
Ár bia mara
‘Seafood is slaughter’

S: bia mara ‘seafood’
P: ár ‘slaughter’

Chuir duine an íomhá so chugainn tá fada ó shin ach níor roinneamair anso í fós. Ná hithidh ach glasraí lenúr dtoil, a chairde.
September 28, 2024 at 9:25 PM
Halla Deuglán
‘Deuglán is a hall’

Gaelchló a roinn an íomhá so ar an suíomh eile ⁊ ghoideamair uathu í.
September 28, 2024 at 12:25 PM
Líne Glas an Luas
‘Speed is a Line of Locks’

Subject: an Luas ‘(the) Speed’
Predicate: Líne Glas ‘a Line of Locks’

‘Glas’ gan séimhiú mar is ginideach iolra atá ann.
April 21, 2024 at 10:19 AM
Tá an scéal i bhfad níos measa ná mar a shamhlaíomair ar dtúis…
March 27, 2024 at 12:29 PM
Níl aon chopail le fáilt sa sampla so cé go mbeifí ag súil léi gan amhras.

Seans ná tiocfaidís fiú dá mbeadh coinne acu leis an gCopail, faraor.
March 27, 2024 at 12:27 PM
Ceol Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann
‘The Royal Irish Academy is music’

S: Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann ‘the RIA’
P: ceol ‘music’

(ciall eile is féidir a bhaint as ‘music of the RIA’ ach sa chás san b’fhearr leis an athair Peadar féin ‘Ceol Acadaimh R. na hÉ.’ le foirm an ghinidigh)
February 26, 2024 at 11:40 PM
Muintir an Cheathrú Rua
“Carraroe is a people”

S: an Cheathrú Rua ‘Carraroe’
P: muintir ‘a people’

tá fíor brón orm
“there is a figure of sorrows upon me”

fíor ‘a figure’ (alt. reading ‘truth’)
brón, gen. pl.: ‘of sorrows’ (gan séimhiú mar go bhfuil an focal sa ghin. iolra)
February 26, 2024 at 8:59 PM
SuperValu Páirc
‘A Park is (a?) SuperValu’

Subject: Páirc ‘a Park, a Field’
Predicate: SuperValu

Léighidh níos mó ina thaobh san anso: www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...
January 16, 2024 at 9:12 PM
Dia daoibh gach duine!
‘Every person is a god to ye!’

subject: gach duine ‘every person, everyone’
predicate: dia daoibh ‘a god to ye; a god of yours’

Is fíor-choitianta an ceann san!
#Gaeilge
November 29, 2023 at 2:13 PM
Anam Cara
‘A Friend is a Soul’

subject: Cara ‘a Friend’
predicate: Anam ‘a Soul’
November 26, 2023 at 1:25 PM
Carraig Donn
‘A Noble / Brown Colour is a Rock.’

Subject: Donn ‘a Noble / Chieftain’ or ‘Brown Colour’
Predicate: Carraig ‘a Rock’
November 20, 2023 at 6:54 PM