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Rh that man going down the road?” Here the verb “know” simply means recognise, therefore the Irish is: If you say to a fellow- student “Do you know your lessons to-day?” You mean “Do you know them by rote?” or “Have you studied them?” Hence the Irish would be: “”

Notice also the following translations of the verb know.

I LIKE, I PREFER.

“I like” and “I prefer” are translated by the expressions and  (it is good with me; and, it is better with me).

If we change the preposition “” in the above sentences, for the preposition “,” we get