Inside it
Na bhroinn
In Section 2 we heard a sentence in the recording where the Reverend Norman MacDonald said: bha e fosgailte na bhroinn (it was open inside), 'it was hollow', when he was talking about a ballan , a stick that people would use as a cure/remedy.
We see the compound preposition am broinn which we learnt in B1 and which we saw again in Cuspair 3 .
We can use this structure when we talk about pain nar bodhaig (in our body).
MÌNEACHADH | EXPLANATION:
am broinn
The compound preposition (ann) am broinn (inside, within) uses the preposition ann am ; and so to say 'inside me' we need to remember how we combine the simple preposition ann an with the possessive adjectives:
mo, do, a, a (h–), ar (n–), ur (n–), an/am.
We also need to remember that nouns following compound prepositions take the genitive case:
AM BROINN | Am broinn | Inside |
+ mi | nam bhroinn | inside me |
+ thu | nad bhroinn | inside you |
+ e | na bhroinn | inside him |
+ i | na broinn | inside her |
+ sinn | nar broinn | inside us |
+ sibh | nur broinn | inside you (polite/plural) |
+ iad | nam broinn | inside them |