Commands
In a command the imperative mood is used, and no subject is given.
| Tabhair | dúinn | dhá | ghloine | fuisce | le do thoil. |
| give | to us | two | glasses | whiskey | please |
| "Please give us two glasses of whiskey!" | |||||
To express a negative command, the particle ná is used. This particle, which can be roughly translated "don't", causes neither eclipsis nor lenition, and attaches h to a following vowel.
| Ná | cailligí | an | t-airgead. |
| don't | lose | the | money |
| "Don't lose the money!" | |||
| Ná | habair | leo | é. |
| don't | tell | to them | it |
| "Don't tell it to them!" | |||
| Ná | téimis | abhaile. | |
| don't | let's go | home | |
| "Let's not go home!" | |||
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Famous quotes containing the word commands:
“I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town which was appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“They went to him and woke him up, shouting, “Master, Master, we are perishing!” And he woke up and rebuked the wind and the raging waves; they ceased, and there was a calm. He said to them, “Where is your faith?” They were afraid and amazed, and said to one another, “Who then is this, that he commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him?””
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 8:24-25.