conas tá' aríst. another small question, if i was to use dris or driseog to describe an irritable person could I say either Is dris é or is é an dris é or both? I though the latter was the definite form as in "sean is the teacher" as opposed to "sean is a teacher" its just in FGB (which i have thankfully found) it translates is é an dris é as he is such a cross patch

maith agaibh

Personally I wouldn't say that. I'd say "cosúil le dris".
I'm not saying that is wrong though.

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Is é an dris é.

Irish tends to use the definite article to indicate a representative example more than English.

The nearest thing I can think of in English is the way people say "He is the proverbial ~". In Irish you don't need an equivalent for the word "proverbial" - just add the article to the noun.

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