http://talkirish.com/blogs/wordaday/archive/2014/03/18/irish-word-a-day-or-225-iste-orange-fruit.aspxor&aacute;iste orange (Please visit the site to view this media) With Article (Singular) an t-or&aacute;iste the orange (Please visit the site to view this media) Example Sentence Thug Se&aacute;n or&aacute;iste do Mh&aacute;ire Se&aacute;n gave MaireenCommunityServer 2008 SP1 (Build: 30619.63)http://talkirish.com/blogs/wordaday/archive/2014/03/18/irish-word-a-day-or-225-iste-orange-fruit.aspx#7290Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:40:59 GMT0644754f-ff87-49dd-b5e3-0e104f790f4a:7290Dale D<p>Could this translation follow a different English construct and say, &quot;Seán gave an orange to Mary&quot;? &nbsp;To me it&#39;s a more logical construct, since the direct object is really &quot;orange&quot; which is &quot;given&quot; to Mary, and Mary becomes the indirect object. &nbsp;It also more closely follows the Irish construct, and it feels like the way I would say it...but I&#39;m sure there are many who would say it they way it was originally translated here.</p> <p>Dale D</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://talkirish.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=7290" width="1" height="1">http://talkirish.com/blogs/wordaday/archive/2014/03/18/irish-word-a-day-or-225-iste-orange-fruit.aspx#4948Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:15:06 GMT0644754f-ff87-49dd-b5e3-0e104f790f4a:4948faberm<p>Thug Seán oraiste dom.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://talkirish.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=4948" width="1" height="1">