Shawn
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Feic : Present Tense -- Are these sentences correct? Ní fheiceann seisean na héin, ach feicimse iad. He doesn't see the birds, but I see them. An bhfeiceann tusa na féileacáin freisin? Do you see the butterflies too? Ní fheiceann siadsan an ghealach, ach feicimidne í. They don't see the moon, but we see it. Nach bhfeiceann sibh na réaltaí gach oíche? Don't you see the stars every night? Sílim go bhfeiceann sé an fear sin gach maidin. I think that he sees that man every morning. Sílim nach bhfeiceann sí an capall gach Máirt. I think that she doesn't see the horse every Tuesday. Seo é an fear a fheiceann na héisc ansin. This is the man who sees the fish there. Seo í an bhean a bhfeiceann a mac fianna ansin. This is the woman whose son sees deer there. Seo é an dalta nach bhfeiceann turtair ag an trá. This is the student who doesn't see turtles at the beach. Seo é an cailín a bhfeiceann a hathair an inis. This is the girl whose father doesn't see the island. * "Seo é an cailín" (grammatical gender of following noun) or "Seo í an cailín" (gender of actual person)? * Photo: The Connecticut River winding through Hadley and Northampton, Massachusetts USA.
Mar 2, 2015 9:54 PM
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They're all fine, except that I would also use "í" with "cailín" (though I would more likely just say "seo an cailín..."). (You also mistranslated that sentence in the negative, but I'm assuming that was just an error of distraction)

Also, I would use "an t-oileán" rather than "an inis"; it's a word in more general use to mean "island". "Inis" is a more literary word, mostly just used in placenames these days (you could think of it as something like the difference in English between "island" and "isle"); also "inis" may have slightly different meanings in different dialects.

Good use of emphatic suffixes!

 

March 3, 2015
Yeah, I am thinking it should be í also, since Coligno said it should be í or feminine prepositional pronoun like di in other grammar patterns but I wanted to make sure that even applied to this sentence pattern too. :)
March 3, 2015
I'm not gonna "correct" this, since my Irish is rusty, but it all looks textbook to me. "your canúint may vary." :) Also, I do believe it'd be "Seo í an cailín." Do a quick in-quotes google search, and "seo é an cailín" doesn't give but one result, and it's this post! Ádh mór ort.
March 3, 2015
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