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:
“How often we read that the enemy occupied a position which commanded the old, and so the fort was evacuated! Have not the school-house and the printing-press occupied a position which commands such a fort as this?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is less need of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.”
—Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (1689–1755)
“The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out.... Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)