Irish - A trick to remember Urú's.

Urú's in Irish are letters that come before verbs in a sentence.
But the thing with urú's is that they are only implemented for specific groups.

Example:

Let's say we wanted to say "our pen" in Irish. Since the word "our" in Irish takes an urú it's fair to say that we have to add the appropriate letter to the start of pen.

Pen in Irish in "peann" but since we have "our" behind it we have to add an urú. So we see that the first letter of "peann" is p. So now we find the appropriate letter that goes at the start of the word. And that letter would be "b". 

Our final sentence should be "ár bpeann."


I know some people who would have trouble remembering what letter becomes before what and how we know when a verb needs an urú, so I have 2 tricks that could help increase your chances of remembering them.

First of we have to know what letter becomes before what in Irish. The simple solution is to make an acronym. Acronyms are sentences made from the first letter of words. 

Example:

NASA = National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Using acronyms, we can make sentences from the urú's.

The letters used for urú's are is follows:

Mb
Gc
Nd
Dt
Ng
Bp
Bhf

Using these letters I constructed a short sentence.

My Brother
Got Caught
Not Doing
Dishes Tonight
Nobody Gets
Blueberry Pie
Before He Finishes.


I know it sounds stupid but it's easy to remember. You don't have to use it, you could make your own acronyms and make them funny so they'd be easy to remember. I obviously had to make my one family friendly because the teachers wouldn't approve.

The next trick is displayed on this graph, which was poorly made in MS paint because of my lack of art skills.

If you wanna take a picture of it, for PC use "Snipping tool" to crop out the picture. If you're on a smartphone just screenshot.

Look at the first three words. "Mo", "Do," and "A" these translate to "My", "Your" and "His".
These three words signify that they take a seimhiu, which is simply a "h" that is implemented into a word. (I'll make a blog about seimhiu's for my next Irish blog.)

Then the one at the peak of the graph is "Her". This one doesn't take a seimhiu or an uru nothing much to add on her just pay attention to sentences when there's a "A" and check whether it's stating if it's a man or a woman.

Then lastly we have the last three. "Ár", "Bhúr" and "A". These translate to "Our", "Your (plural)" "Their". These words take uru's, if you couldn't read.

Alright so that's the guide, hell if I know it actually works but still. It's just a theory.

(July - 20th - 2019)