Irish phrases for a Post Card (Mainly Junior Cert)

I was doing up some postcard notes for a 6th class pupil I do grinds with however they would be useful for Junior cert too so thought i would put them up here! Some phrases may even be hepful with for Leaving cert so here you go!

I have more complicated sentences I can put up which would actually be more useful for HL Junior cert or leaving cert. If anyone is interested in them I can type them up for you? These are just very basic sentences that I have here as it was for a 6th class pupil doing a scholarship exam!

Cárta phoist – Postcard

Conas atá tú – how are you?

Tá mé ar fheabhas – i am great

Tá mé ar mo laethanta saoirse i _____ - i am on my holidays in _____

Conas atá do chlann? – How is your family

Tá bórn orm nach scríobh mé le fada – i am sorry i havent written in a while

Bhí áthas orm do litir a fháil – i was happy to get your letter

An Áit – The place

Tá mé i ______ - I am in _____

Is áit álainn é – it is a lovely place

Tá a lán le déanamh – there is a lot to do

Tá a lán siopaí agus bialanna – there are a lot of shops and restaurants

Tá an trá go hiontach – the beach is great

 

Cá bhfuil tú ag fanacht? – where are you staying?

Tá mé ag fanacht in óstán – I am staying in a hotel

Tá mé ag fanacht in árasán – i am staying in an apartment

Tá mé ag campáil – i am camping

Tá an seomra an deas – the room is really nice

Tá mé ag fanacht i dteach mo chara – i am staying in my friends house

Tá an óstán in aice leis an trá – the hotel is beside the beach

Tá an óstán an-mhór – the hotel is very big

 

Cé atá leat? – who is with you?

Tá mo chairde liom – I with my friends

Tá mo mham liom – I am with my mam

Tá mo theaghlach/chlann liom – i am with my family 

An Aimsir  - The weather

Bhí an ghrian ag taitneamh inné  - The sun was shining yesterday

Tá an ghrian ag taithneamh go hard sa spéir  - the sun is shining high in the sky

Tá sé te – it is hot

Tá dath gréine agam – I have a sun tan

Tá an teocht ard inniu  - the temperature is high today

Tá mé cosúil le tráta – I look like a tomato

Níl aon scamall sa spéir  - there are no clouds in the sky

Tá sé ró-the – it is too hot

Tá an aimsir go hálainn  - the weather is lovely

Tá an aimsir go dona  - the weather is bad

Tá sé ag cur báistí  - it is raining

Tá sé ag stealladh báistí – it is lashing rain

Tá sé fliuch – it is wet

Tá sé fuar – it is cold

Tá sé ag cur sneachta – it is snowing

Tá sé ceomhar  - it is foggy

Bhí mé fliuch go craiceann  - I was soaked to the skin

 

Bia – Food

Tá an bia go hálainn – the food is lovely

Tá an bia uafásach – the food is horrible

Ithim i mbialann gach oíche – i eat in a restaurant every night

Tá sé an-bhlasta – it is very tasty

Is aoibheann liom ____ – i really like _____

Ag dul abhaile? Going home?

Beidh mé ag dul abhaile i dhá seachtain – I will be going home in two weeks

Beidh mé ag filleadh abhaile amárach – I will be returning home tomorrow

Tá mé anseo ar feadh cúig lá – I am here for 5 days

Feichfidh mé thú an seachtain seo chuigeann – i will see you next week

Cad atá tú ag déanamh? What are you doing?

Chuaigh mé ag siopadóireacht inné – i went shopping inné

Cheannaigh mé bronnantas duit - i bought you a present

Rachaidh mé go dtí an trá amárach – i will go to the beach tomorrow

Thug mé cuairt ar ____ - i visited _____

Bíonn mé ag snámh gach lá – i swim everyday

Is maith liom an linn snámha – i like the swimming pool 

Na daoine – The people

Tá na daoine an-chairdiúl – the people are very friendly

Tá a lán cairde nua agam – I have a lot of new friends

____ is ainm di - ____ is her name.

Tá sí ina cónaí i _______ - she lives in ______

Irregular Irish Verbs

Sorry, i have been ridiculously slow at getting this up, been so busy, then my scanner broke. But finally, they are here! Yay!
There are 11 iregualr irish verbs. They are

Bí
Feic
Ith
Teigh
Faigh
Clois
Tar
Tabhair
Abair
Beir
Déan

I have all of these verbs written out in the aimsir chaite, aimsir láithreach, aimsir fháistineach, modh coiníollach and the gnáth chaite.

Hope they are a help.

It can be difficult and will take time but i recommed learning these off.
The same thing with the endings for the regular ones in my last post, LEARN THEM LEARN THEM LEARN THEM!!! Trust me it will make irish so much easier as you will be able say any very in any tense, it will help massively with essays, oral, sraith pictúir, Everything, you always use verbs! Okay so the Gnáthchaite, it is on the course, although i never did it in class and rarely used it. Occasionally you will see it in comprehensions and things so it is a help if you know it although if you are sturggling i would say leave it out, although i still recommend knowing what it is, even if you cant write out verbs in it, just know it is the continuous past, it is like for the very bí, the present tense is Tá but bíonn is the continous present, meaning i always or every day etc, so the past tense of say play is i played, the continous past would be like i used to play every day or something like that.

Irish Regular verbs

Okay so I am a bit short on time as I am moving up to Dublin to go to college on Saturday so instead of typing up all the notes i have just scanned my note book and will post the pictures on this.

This is what to do for all regular verbs in Irish to put them into the Aimsir caite, aimsir láitreach, Aimsir Fháistineach, Módh coinníollach and Gnáth Chaith.



It is divided up into Céad Reimnú and Dara Reimnú verbs.

Céad reimnú verbs have one syllable, eg Rith, or two syllables if there is a fada on the second syllable eg Taispeáin

Dara Reimnú verbs are all the other verbs (except for the 11 irregular verbs which i will deal with in my next post)



In each of these two groups they are divided into Leathan and caol endings.

Leathan (broad) verbs are verbs in which the last vowel is either a, o, or u.

Caol (slender) verbs are verbs in which the last vowel is either i, or e.

If you have any queries about how this is laid out or are unsure of any of it please comment and i will be happy to explain it to you :)

My next post will have the 11 irregular verbs done out in full in the same 5 tenses.