Re: PTD was the most-respected of the AUE regulars ...

On 28/07/24 18:19, Aidan Kehoe wrote:

[Positive: I can now say "Tá penna m'aintín ar bhuró m'uncail", so
maybe I'm making progress.]

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Penna isn’t a word; did you mean peann? Next step; render « La plume
de ma tante est près de la chaise de ma tante. »

Thanks for the correction. I'll try to memorise peann. I'm putting aside
your other challenge for a few months, but I did use Google Translate to
discover that "pres de" -> "in aice le", literally "in nearness with".
Recent discovery: I've noticed that Irish can use the preposition "ag"
(=at) to produce something that is close to the English present
continuous. "He is at walking."
On the wall above my desk is a table with the conjugations of five
common prepositions. I'm getting close to where I can add a couple more.
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Newcastle, NSW