The new blas. grammar tables
Prepositional pronouns, irregular verbs and mutations for all six Celtic languages, as charts you can read at a glance.
It used to point you at other pages. Now it is the tables themselves, at blasapp.com/tables, and it is built the same way as the new dictionary: pick a language, and the answer is right there.
The rundown:
- Prepositional pronouns, all at once - every preposition against every person, in one chart
- Irregular verbs, one at a time - pick a verb and see every tense and person together
- Mutations - which letters change, what they become, and a box that mutates any word you type
- Six languages - Irish, Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Breton, Cornish and Manx
Prepositional pronouns
In Irish, ag (at) and mé (me) become one word, agam. Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Manx, Cornish and Breton do the same kind of thing.
The chart puts every preposition across the top and every person down the side, so you can see the whole pattern instead of one preposition at a time. Emphatic forms such as agamsa sit underneath, and you can switch them off if you want it cleaner. Type a form or an English meaning in the search box and the matching cells light up.
Where we have audio for a language, tap any form to hear it.
Irregular verbs
Pick a verb and you get one table: tenses across the top, persons down the side. Irish has 11 irregular verbs, from bí and téigh to feic and clois. The other languages have their own short lists, and each verb links to its full page.
You can search by the verb, its English meaning, or a form you have seen. Type chuaigh and it finds téigh.
Mutations
Pick a language and you see the whole system as a chart: each opening letter, and what it becomes under each mutation. Where a change is blocked, such as Irish s before sc, sp or st, the chart says so.
Or type a word into the search box. Cat gives you chat and gcat, and the row it came from is highlighted in the chart.
Full pages for each table
Each table also has a page of its own, for sharing or printing, with every language covered:
- Irish prepositional pronouns and Welsh prepositional pronouns
- Irish irregular verbs and Welsh irregular verbs
- Irish mutations and Welsh mutations
Try it out at blasapp.com/tables. If a table is wrong or missing, tell me at info@blasapp.com and I will fix it.
- from john at blas.