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Rh The word “just” in these sentences is not translated into Irish, and the word after  is in the genitive case.

When the English verb is transitive there is another very neat method of translating the secondary tenses. As already stated, there is no verb “to have” in Irish: its place is supplied by the verb and the preposition. Thus, “I have a book” is,. A similar construction may be used in translating the secondary tenses of an English transitive verb. The following sentences will illustrate the construction:—

The English Pluperfect and Future Perfect are translated in the same manner as the Present Perfect, except that the Past and Future Tenses respectively of must be used instead of the Present, as above. The following examples will illustrate the construction;—