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Correstponding to almost every verb is an adjective formed from it. Its formation was described in Unit 5. Here are some examples of the verbal adjective used with tá.
déanann, Tá sé déanta cheana. It is already done. (Or it has already been done)
dúnann, Tá an siopa dúnta. The shop is closed.
scríobhann Tá sé scríofa anseo. It is written here.
críochnaíonn, Níl sé críochnaithe. It isn't finished. (or it hasn't been finished)
Notice that some of these can be translated into English two ways.
Some verbs, like imíonn (goes, leaves) and éiríonn (gets up), do not take an object. When the verbal adjective of such verbs is combined with tá the meaning is similar to that of the English perfect tense.
Tá tú imithe tharais. You have gone past it. (lit. you are gone...)
Tá sé imithe abhaile. He has gone home (lit. he is gone...)
Tá siad tagtha. They have arrived.
Tá mé éirithe. I am up. (lit. I am risen.)
I actually slept through the night last night, amazingly enough. I'm not sure how rested I feel today since I didn't manage to get to bed early last night, either, but I at least got a full night's sleep. Average full night's sleep, anyway. We'll see if that's enough and how much I'm recuperating and how much sleep I need. Woo.
I'm rewatching Jekyll in preparation for meeting James Nesbitt at Dragon*Con. I'm not even sure what to say to the creepy bastard. But this kind of makes me want to hide behind Bofur. Though I'd not quite managed to forget that Dwalin/Graham McTavish is in this too. He's also coming to Dragon*Con. This is going to be a weird, interesting Dragon*Con. And I have no idea what kind of line they're going to have, and. Weird and interesting. I kind of hope I run into them without a lineup, but that's always sort of a crapshoot. And I'm still debating whether or not it'd be too ... something. To get Nesbitt to sign my Irish textbook. Well, the more textbooky one.
And apparently this is the week for me tweeting actors on a lark, because it amuses me, and having them tweet back much to my acute startlement. First Sasha, then Colin Ferguson yesterday. I've actually met Colin Ferguson, a couple Dragon*Cons ago, he's a real sweetheart. So, yes. This morning's been a bit odd.
I need to get back on track somehow. That's probably going to be most of today, dragging myself back on track, wrapping up things that should have been done days ago. And dealing with the dregs of the mail order sale. That's going to be fun. If I'm very lucky nothing will happen to make it complicated and I'll get it done. Otherwise it's back to the Red Queen's Race.
ETA: So, I remembered that "chases, escapes, true love, miracles" were Wednesday, sent off a tweet to Sasha about Happy Princess Bride day and so on, and tagged it #inconceivable! An Inigo Montoya bot replied. At least I'm pretty sure it's a bot, the account seems to exist for the sole purpose of finding people who have used that tag and replying to them with "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." Awesome. I love the internet.
