The Verbal Noun and its Uses (1)

How to use the verbal noun in sentences

[patrickboyle]

"The verbal adj. describes the state of things." What a great and straightforward way to describe that. Super helpful. GRMA!

[thebigboyo]

Yes mate legend ! Your daughter showed me these videos god bless ya ya legend !

[SmithBillyBob]

Thank you, Seán. Your YouTube Irish lessons are such a big help to me and others for understanding and putting to use some very fundamental elements of Irish. Making these videos must take you a lot of time and effort. We appreciate it and hope you will continue. Go raibh míle maith agat! Jim

[lilianmiramontesjr.]

I love your videos! You explain things so well

[muzzamuxxa]

"There's a wee bit more chaos in the language than sometimes the grammar books would have you believe." Love it!

[neasanicdhomhnaill]

Go raibh míle maith agat a Shéain - this is exactly what I need! Keep going making these wonderful videos, straight forward explainations of Irish grammar at this level is so needed :-)

[paulbustion]

I watched the video a second time this morning, and after finishing it went back to begin watching the chart of sentences with verbal nouns forming the meaning that the suffix 'ing' gives in English. At 5:28 you said something very helpful about the sample sentence 'Tá mé ag déanamh mo dhíchill' ('I am doing my best'). You said: 'So, "déan, ' and then "ag déanamh, " "doing, " you're really saying, 'déanamh' means "the act of doing, " so you're at the act of doing.' That is an excellent explanation and makes it much easier to understand how verbal nouns work. When I first saw verbal nouns in Irish, I mistook them for verbs. Your explanation shows how they work really well. It is similar to how 'at war, ' functions in the English sentence 'Germany is at war.' 'Tá mé ag déanamh mo dhíchill' translates more literally as 'I am at doing my best, ' that is how 'ag déanamh' manages to function as a noun in the sentence, even though to someone not familiar with the language it might be mistaken for a verb, as I mistook it for such, initially.

[armandodeltoro]

Your videos are excellent, very helpful. I am taking an beginner course and supplement that course with your videos. Thank you and keep them coming!

[sosh]

Please make more videos. We are hungry for the knowledge of Irish. You make it alive and useful.

[ciarandickinson]

You are a terrific teacher. This was very helpful. Can you do a whole video on the copula? It starts of easy (is fear mé etc) but with more complex sentences the copula gets confusing.

[Meteor-IE]

I would love if you kept these up, like you (well ten years older) I want to get back into it. These are so helpful, I find it nice if when you explain the exact Irish-English translation like in the first videos, that was very helpful. Also, your videos explain why we all seem to love the word 'the' in Ireland!

[becky]

So easy to understand when you explain it. Is there a pdf for this lesson?

[PaddThePirate]

Go raibh maith agat a Sheán! Tá an video seo iontach! Is múinteoir maith thú!

[CompletelyFocailed]

Finally, thank you for explaining so clearly

[teangaire]

Mínithe thar cionn uilig... Very well explained altogether...

[johnjoe]

Really well done, thank you so much for making this!

[jamiecampbell]

This has come at just the right time, having got myself into a tizz with the verbal noun. You've put it all so clearly. Thank you! Are you planning an modh coinníollach video, by any chance?

[frankkirwin-hall]

Iontach! an-chabhrach. will help me in my rang Gaeilge. Go raibh mile maith agat. both to you for the instruction and to the Scoil Ghaeilige Ghearóid Tóibin for providing links to your videos. I will certainly be viewing your other posts. Frank / Proinnsias.

[sosh]

Go raibh maith agat Sean. Le do thoil make a video on tenses. I really appreciate it.

[cianocionnfhaolaidh]

Físeán iontach! GRMMA! 'Ibhid' is the original verb for 'to drink'; 'ól' was originally the verbal noun of ibhid, but ól began to take over as the verb from the Middle-Irish period onwards.