ABSTRACT

This chapter presents stimulating exercises with lively illustrations in Irish showing how Irish speakers talking about living quarters and the contents of rooms, number and location of rooms, and also specifying rent arrangements and satisfaction with accommodation. It also show the Irish speakers use the definite article. In English, articles are “a,” “an,” and “the.” Irish only has the equivalent of “the” which is an. This is called the definite article. An can cause the noun that follows it to lenite or add a t. Nouns in Irish are either masculine or feminine. When an comes before a masculine noun that begins with a consonant, there is no change in the initial spelling or pronunciation.