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PostPosted: Sat 25 Mar 2017 9:42 pm 
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When you have multiple prepositional phrases in irsh, what's the order? I know that, generally, unstressed inflected ones move to the end of the clause (from Modern Irish: "Bhí an sagart inné aic[i]"). But what if there's a stressed one, or a prep. phrase that's not inflected. Such as, in English:

"My mother has medicine for her back". Would it be "Tá leigheas dhá droim ag mo mháthair" or "Tá leigheas ag mo mháthair dhá droim"? What about if I shifted in "_I_"? "Tá leigheas do mo dhorim agamsa?"

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PostPosted: Sun 26 Mar 2017 11:40 am 
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Tá leigheas dá droim ag mo mháthair. ? b'fhéidir


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PostPosted: Sun 26 Mar 2017 2:38 pm 
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micab wrote:
Tá leigheas dá droim ag mo mháthair. ? b'fhéidir



I was leaning towards tá leigheas dhá droim ag mo mháthair as well, since dhá droim is acting as an adjective on leigheas. But I'm still not sure. I did find an example in the Annotated Guide to the Christian Brother's grammar of "Tabhair cuid den mhil dom", but I was unsure if that was because of "cuid"


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PostPosted: Sun 26 Mar 2017 6:53 pm 
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FWIW, I would say what micab has said. I wouldn't know the reason for it though.


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