ABSTRACT

Basic Irish: A Grammar and Workbook provides a jargon-free introduction to the most commonly used grammatical structures within the Irish language. Focusing on the repeated use of grammatical patterns, this Workbook develops an understanding of the structures presented, making the forms familiar and automatic for learners.

This user-friendly workbook includes:

  • terminology introduced and explained with multiple examples
  • exercises in the grammatical forms introduced in the text
  • translation exercises
  • an exercise key.

chapter |8 pages

Eclipsis

Other mutations

chapter |10 pages

Gender and number

Nouns and articles

chapter |12 pages

Case

Noun classes and cases

chapter |30 pages

Men’s surnames

Personal names

chapter |8 pages

First conjugation verbs

Verbs I: Present tense of regular verbs

chapter |8 pages

First-conjugation verbs

Verbs II: Future tense of regular verbs

chapter |18 pages

Simple past

Verbs III: Past tense

chapter |8 pages

‘Do’, ‘see’, and ‘hear’

Irregular verbs II

chapter |52 pages

Present tense

The verb bí

chapter |8 pages

Subject and object pronouns

Pronouns

chapter |8 pages

Do and de

Prepositions II: More prepositional pronouns

chapter |10 pages

‘To have’

Possession and ownership

chapter |44 pages

Verbal adjective formation

Verbal adjectives and the present perfect