mise tusa

Emphatic Personal Pronouns

Level 1

Mise and tusa emphasize or contrast participants: Tá mise réidh. Emphatic forms are not required whenever English stresses a pronoun.

How It Works

Mise and tusa emphasize or contrast participants: Tá mise réidh. Emphatic forms are not required whenever English stresses a pronoun.

Mise and tusa can contrast the speaker and addressee with someone else. The corresponding emphatic forms include seisean, sise and siadsan. They are grammatical forms in their own right; do not add a separate ordinary pronoun alongside them.

Examples (3)

  1. Tá mise réidh.

    I am ready. (Contrasting myself with someone else.)

  2. Tá tusa luath.

    You are early. (Emphasizing you.)

  3. Tá sise sa bhaile.

    She is at home. (Contrasting her with someone else.)

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mise tusaLevel 1Emphatic Personal Pronouns

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Know ordinary personal reference before adding contrastive emphasis.

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sésímuidsinnsibhsiad