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> The same is also true for Turkish: Something similar in Irish: Tá úll agam = is (an) apple at me. In this case it's the preposition "ag" that gets conjugate

> The same is also true for Turkish: Something similar in Irish: Tá úll agam = is (an) apple at me. In this case it's the preposition "ag" that gets conjugated differently for at me, at you, at him... instead of the subject as in Turkish or the object in the Hungarian example. Agat = at you. Or for feelings: Tá ocras orm = is hunger on me. Ort = on you. Children learn example sentences like these early in their mandatory Irish classes, though they don't start to memorize the lists of conjugations until a few years later. This seems like a reasonable approach, but the classes are staggeringly ineffective at actually teaching the language so we must be doing something wrong. It's interesting how often m means me, and t or d means thou, across all kinds of European languages.

DonaldFisk 4y ago
> Tá úll agam = is (an) apple at me. In this case it's the preposition "ag" that gets conjugated differently for at me, at you, at him... instead of the subject as in Turkish or the object in the Hungarian example. Agat = at you. > Or for feelings: Tá ocras orm = is hunger on me. Ort = on you. Same, except for spelling differences, for its very close relative, Scottish Gaelic. > It's interesting how often m means me, and t or d means thou, across all kinds of European languages. Most European languages are related, but it also applies to Finnish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_verb_conjugation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_verb_conjugation , which is not Indoeuropean. Also, the Etruscan (also non-Indoeuropean) first person pronoun is "mi": "mi spanti larices" = I am Larice's plate". The second person pronoun appears to be "un", though.