🗣️ Gaeilge
Tá ocras orm
In Irish you don’t say “I’m hungry.” You say “hunger is on me.” The same idea lets you say how you feel, what you have, and what you had yesterday, with only a handful of words.
Which word means “hungry”?
Play it, then tap the word you think means hungry.
On you, or at you
Feelings sit on you, so they use ar. Things you have sit at you, so they use ag. Each one has seven forms, one for each person. Tap them to hear them.
In is maith liom the small word was le, “with”. It works the same way: the person is joined onto the end of it.
Two places people slip
Someone asks you this. You do have one.
The short answers
As with is maith, you answer by giving the verb back.
The verb changes when you ask
Tá and bhí are both the verb bí, “to be”. It’s the most used verb in Irish, and it doesn’t follow the usual rules. Look at the Now row, then guess what the Then row will do before you flip to it.
Build any sentence
Pick the verb, the person and the thing. The word decides whether it’s ar or ag, so watch the end of the sentence change when you swap a feeling for a thing.
The verb
Who
What
More things that can be on you
Most feelings work like ocras. So does being sick.
And two more for ag. The second one is worth knowing.
Listen and pick
This time there’s nothing to read. Play it, then pick what it means. There are 336 sentences in here, so it’s different every time you come back.
Spot it
Here are six to finish with. Nothing is scored or timed.
Three small words, three jobs
You’ve now met all three. Each one carries a different kind of sentence.
Next time you hear someone say Tá mé ocras, you’ll know they’ve said “I am hunger”, and you’ll be able to tell them how to fix it.