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| Are you reading the letter? | Ḃfuil tú ag léiġeaḋ na litre?
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| Who was beating the child? | Cia ḃí ag bualaḋ an leinḃ?
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577. If the object of the English present participle be a personal pronoun we cannot translate as in the above sentences, because the pronouns have no genitive case; hence instead of using the personal pronouns we must employ the possessive adjectives. Possessive adjectives must always precede the nouns which they qualify.
| He is striking me. | Tá sé ’ġam (or agom) ḃualaḋ (lit. he is at my beating).
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| Are you breaking it? | Ḃfuil tú ’ġá (aga) ḃriseaḋ?
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| Are you breaking them? | Ḃfuil tú ’ġá (aga) mbriseaḋ?
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| He is praising us. | Tá sé ġár (ag ár) molaḋ.
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| Is he not burning them? | Naċ ḃfuil sé ’ġa (aga) ndóġaḋ?
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| They are not striking her. | Ní ḟuil siad ’ġá (aga) bualaḋ.
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Note carefully the initial effects of the possessive adjectives on the verbal nouns after them.
