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DNTLS · At the Learning of Irish

• 0:08
  SPEAKER_00: Well, conasatatohara Tommy Tao Kahime Graw I'm okay, I have to say, and today a quick little episode about dentals DNT L S Typically speaking, though there will always be exceptions, when any two of the DNT L S letters meet, the second word will not receive a shivu or uru.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_00: This means that if one word ends in DNT L or S and the following word starts with DNT L or S, the following word will not receive a shavu, even if according to regular grammatical rules, it ought to.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_00: This is most often triggered by the definite article an which ends in an N.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_00: N is one of the dentals.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_00: As we know, feminine nouns get a shavu after the definite article un in nominative case anyway.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_00: If those nouns begin with DNT L or S, they are not going to get a shavu because they're one of the dentals.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_00: For example, on chocht.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_00: The temperature is a feminine noun, but doesn't get a shavu, even though it's feminine, because an ends in an N and Chocht begins with a T.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_00: Now this does not apply one hundred percent of the time, every time these two letters meet.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_00: We can see that ourselves when we learned about asking a question in the present tense.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_00: For example, antu do you do it?
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_00: An and are both dentals, but it still gets the N the Uru.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_00: But sometimes it does apply like when we asked do you eat?
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_00: An INTU We don't put on Nihintu why?
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_00: Well we don't need to say N twice.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_00: Irish, like every language, is all about expediency and speech.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_00: We've already got the N sound there, so we don't need to say it twice.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_00: We'd say at the end of the day, dentals is something to keep in mind, but you may still have to memorize nay, you will still have to memorize how things are when you're learning them, because as I've said, every language has exceptions.
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_00: I guess Shine Akara, that's it.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_00: This was a little quick one, uh, but it's a good tool to have while you're learning Irish.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_00: So I will see you next time.
• 3:17
  SPEAKER_00: Slan Gefal.