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		<pubPlace>24 Upper O'Connell Street, Dublin</pubPlace><date>Aibreán, 1898</date><idno>IG08-10456</idno><distributor>Royal Irish Academy</distributor>
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<text><body><div><p><span><pb n="195"/></span>
<lb n="1"/><span>Do buaileadh mo ghadhar - My dog was struck</span>
<lb n="2"/><span>Bhí mo ghadhar dá bhualadh - My dog was struck</span>
<lb n="3"/><span>Bhí mo ghadhar buailte - My dog was struck</span></p>
<lb n="4"/>
<lb n="5"/><p><span>1.  Do dóigheadh mo thigh = my house was burned. i.e.</span>
<lb n="6"/><span>(some one) burned my house (dóigheadh here is</span>
<lb n="7"/><span>active and transitive).</span></p>
<lb n="8"/>
<lb n="9"/><p><span>2.  Bhí mo thigh da dhóghadh = my house, i.e.,</span>
<lb n="10"/><span>the burning was taking place at the time; i.e.,</span>
<lb n="11"/><span>"my house was unto its burning," i.e., "my house</span>
<lb n="12"/><span>was being burned" (doghadh is here a verbal noun).</span></p>
<lb n="13"/>
<lb n="14"/><p><span>3.  Bhí mo thigh dóighte = "my house was burned;"</span>
<lb n="15"/><span>i.e., "my house was in a burned state."</span></p>
<lb n="16"/>
<lb n="17"/><p><span>1.  Go goidheadh.  There we have the act itself standing</span>
<lb n="18"/><span>alone.</span></p>
<lb n="19"/>
<lb n="20"/><p><span>2.  Do goideadh mo sgian.  There we have the act</span>
<lb n="21"/><span>coming down upon its object.</span></p>
<lb n="22"/>
<lb n="23"/><p><span>3.  Bhí mo sgian da goid.  There we have the object</span>
<lb n="24"/><span>receiving the act.</span></p>
<lb n="25"/>
<lb n="26"/><p><span>4.  Bhí mo sgian goidthe.  There we have the state of</span>
<lb n="27"/><span>the object after the act.</span></p>
<lb n="28"/>
<lb n="29"/><p><span>"Tá mo ghadhar</span>
<lb n="30"/><span>dá bhualadh."</span></p>
<lb n="31"/>
<lb n="32"/><p><span>"Do buaileadh</span>
<lb n="33"/><span>mo ghadhar."</span></p>
<lb n="34"/>
<lb n="35"/><p><span>Peadar Ua Laoghaire.</span></p>
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Historical Irish Corpus
1600 - 1926

The Passive Voice.

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