Irish Verbs (Collins Easy Learning) (English and Irish Edition)

The Irish have about five words for every meaning, five meanings for every word and five spellings for every iteration of the two. Plus, four dialects that various people like and another standard one that nobody likes. Did I mention a totally different orthography?This helps sort things out, though meanings change from dialect to dialect. For noobs like me it should be read with a pronunciation guide and a foclóir.

Extremely useful guide to the complexities of Irish verbs. It is especially helpful when used in conjunction with on line courses, like DuoLingo, which do not provide detailed information on verb structures. Even if you have an Irish grammar book, Irish Verbs is a good quick reference book for the most commonly used verbs. For advanced students, the verbal tables cover verbal nouns, passive voice and conditional/subjunctive, imperatives, et al. Irish Verbs has a premier place on my language book shelf.

Indispensable for language study. I have their dictionary as well. The only improvement I might suggest would be to use the same plastic semi-hardcover binding used for the dictionary. Item arrived on time from seller, would order from this seller again.

Great for review and in great condition!

A great tool to have and learn from.

I agree with P. McKee's review assessment. What were they thinking conjugating verbs with no translation of their meaning directly on the page? Just baffled how this can be published by a brand like Collins. Could have been great.

Excellent resource to grapple with the basics of Irish

not really necessary

I've had this book for one day and I HATE it already. Easy Learning French Verbs and EL German Verbs are very user-friendly. Those 2 books provide Translations for every phrase on each page plus sample sentences using each part of the verb. Not with EL Irish Verbs. So , with the verb Bí (to be) we have the past tense laid out as you would expect: 1st, 2nd and 3rd person singular followed by 1st, 2nd and 3rd person plural. But beside this we have: ní raibh; an raibh?; go raibh; nach raibh; ní rabhthas etc.. What do these phrases mean? No idea. ... and the book doesn't bother to explain. If we turn to an Appendix at the end of the book, we're given translation of the various parts of ONE verb: Glan (to clean). We're told that we can use this "to form some idea of the meaning of the various parts of the verb." SOME IDEA? Is that supposed to be good enough? I hate this book.

115 key verbs are declined in past, present, future, conditional, imperfect, imperative and pres. subjunctive tenses and moods and 3,300 others are associated with them. In the next edition, I suggest that it would be better practice to include the full parallel English translation of a (sample) verb in place of verb no. 2 (rather than as an appendix) and that a page be dedicated to tense / mood explanations. However, these are minor points and otherwise this 316 page, A5 size, book is excellent.

Very good quality, well laid and loads of detailed content. This will really help with my progress of learning the language as I always struggle with my verb tenses. Only annoying thing is they say aspiration instead of seimhu.

The book is well set out and easy to cope with, even for a relative beginner.

Great book, very informative and has all the information on verbs you will need