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* ''admhaigh'' 'to acknowledge' is also used for 'to thank' (with the dative preposition ''do'' for the person who is thanked), like Hebrew הודה ''hoda'' 'to acknowledge; to thank'. (Some say this is a natural development of the sense 'to acknowledge the receipt of'.). ''Admháil duit'' is a common synonym of ''go raibh maith agat''. | * ''admhaigh'' 'to acknowledge' is also used for 'to thank' (with the dative preposition ''do'' for the person who is thanked), like Hebrew הודה ''hoda'' 'to acknowledge; to thank'. (Some say this is a natural development of the sense 'to acknowledge the receipt of'.). ''Admháil duit'' is a common synonym of ''go raibh maith agat''. | ||
Both Talman and Cualandian Irish jokes may start with a cleft construction, which marks the sentence as new information: ''Siúl isteach i mbeár | Both Talman and Cualandian Irish jokes may start with a cleft construction, which marks the sentence as new information: ''Siúl a rinne fear isteach i mbeár'' lit. 'it's walking that a man did into a bar', as in French (''c'est un mec qui rentre dans un bar'' 'it's a guy who walks into a bar') and Irta Hebrew (בוא בא איש אל בית-משתה). Anecdotes and stories also tend to begin with a cleft construction, like how Modern Hebrew uses היה היה ''hayo haya'' for 'once upon a time'. | ||
(*) At times even more so, reflecting a time when CF-Trician Tsarfati Jews considered literary Irish (rather than Ăn Yidiș) to be their secular alternative to literary Hebrew. (A typical pre-modern Cualand Tsarfati household often had a Hebrew-English-Irish trilingual siddur.) When they wrote in Irish they sometimes wrote in a way that sounded fancy to them. | (*) At times even more so, reflecting a time when CF-Trician Tsarfati Jews considered literary Irish (rather than Ăn Yidiș) to be their secular alternative to literary Hebrew. (A typical pre-modern Cualand Tsarfati household often had a Hebrew-English-Irish trilingual siddur.) When they wrote in Irish they sometimes wrote in a way that sounded fancy to them. | ||