I was just wondering if there was a collocations dictionary for Irish, such as Oxford's Collocation Dictionary. I've scanned a definiton from Oxford's:



I've been recommending it to foreign students of English and was hoping there was something similar for students of Irish.

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I'm a beginner, so corrections and suggestions are much appreciated!
"What? First we give a month to black history, now we're blowing seven days on the Irish!"
Pierce, upon hearing about Green Week

This is about the closest thing I know of:

http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/~oduibhin/tobar/

(Looks like it has recently been updated so I am off to download it myself. )

Look forward to hearing of any others out there ...

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

Thanks again. I had an Tobar on my old computer a few years ago and forgot all about it after the crash. It is a fine resource!

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I'm a beginner, so corrections and suggestions are much appreciated!
"What? First we give a month to black history, now we're blowing seven days on the Irish!"
Pierce, upon hearing about Green Week

Have you had a look at the new edition of Pota Focal? If you scroll down after the entries in Gluais Tí and Irishionary, you have Gluais Beo which gives the words you're looking for in context - try a basic word such as féidir for instance and you'll find plenty of examples of how it can be used.

I'm getting a "Server Error in '/' Application" at the moment, so can't check it out. I have noticed this feature at Irish Dictionary Online.

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I'm a beginner, so corrections and suggestions are much appreciated!
"What? First we give a month to black history, now we're blowing seven days on the Irish!"
Pierce, upon hearing about Green Week

So what about colligation in Irish? Now that would be interesting

Ceangal? Cónasc?

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I'm a beginner, so corrections and suggestions are much appreciated!
"What? First we give a month to black history, now we're blowing seven days on the Irish!"
Pierce, upon hearing about Green Week

Colligation can be thought of as grammatical collocation

I'm playing around on Pota Focal. Can someone please tell me what the gu, ai, and gi refer to in this:

focal ‹ainmfhocal, firinscneach›
‹gu: focail› ‹ai: focail› ‹gi: focal›

I've looked for an explanation of this on the site but I can't find anything. Help?

gu = ginideach uatha "genitive singular"
ai = ainmneach iolra "nominative plural"
gi = ginideach iolra "genitive plural"

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).