ABSTRACT
This chapter presents stimulating exercises with lively illustrations showing how Irish speakers asking where someone was on vacation and talking about the weather and accommodation. It explains the formation of simple past of regular verbs and questions in the simple past. The simple past in Irish is commonly constructed by taking the simple present form of the verb, removing the ending, and leniting the initial syllable. For verbs beginning with a vowel, speakers prefix d'. Since f is silent when lenited, one can also add d' to fh. The chapter also provides a clear pronunciation guide and an appendix on dialectal differences within Irish.
