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  • Cúrsaí – Irregular Verbs – Part 1
    • Irregular Verbs: Abair (Say): Verbal Noun
    • Irregular verbs: Beir (Birth/Bring/Take/Catch/Bite): Imperative
    • Irregular verbs: Beir (Birth/Bring/Take/Catch/Bite): Present
    • Irregular Verbs: Beir (Birth/Bring/Take/Catch/Bite): Past
    • Irregular Verbs: Beir (Birth/Bring/Take/Catch/Bite): Future
    • Irregular Verbs: Beir (Birth/Bring/Take/Catch/Bite): Verbal Noun
    • Irregular Verbs: Beir (Birth/Bring/Take/Catch/Bite): Verbal Adjective
    • Irregular verbs: Clois (Hear): Imperative
    • Irregular Verbs: Clois (Hear): Present
    • Irregular Verbs: Clois (Hear): Past
    • Irregular Verbs: Clois (Hear): Future
    • Irregular Verbs: Clois (Hear): Verbal Noun
    • Irregular Verbs: Clois (Hear): Verbal Adjective
    • Irregular Verbs: Déan (Make/Do): Imperative
    • Irregular Verbs: Déan (Make/Do): Future
    • Irregular Verbs: Déan (Make/Do): Verbal Noun
    • Irregular Verbs: Déan (Make/Do): Verbal Adjective
    • Irregular Verbs: Abair (Say): Verbal Adjective
    • Irregular Verbs: Abair (Say): Future
    • Video: (Be): Past, future, verbal noun
    • Irregular verbs: Bí (Be): Habitual
    • Irregular Verbs: Abair (Say): Past
    • Video: (Be): Past, future, verbal noun
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    • Introduction: Be Your Own Master
      • Concepts We’ll Cover
      • Accept That It’s Different
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    • These Five Letters Are Key
      • What Are The Vowels?
      • Vowels By Example
      • Core Concept: Short and Long Vowels
      • The “Fada” Accent Mark
      • Practice for Long Vowel Pronunciation
      • Consecutive Vowels
    • The Rest of the Letters Are Affected By Vowels
      • What are the Consonants?
      • How Do We Pronounce The Consonants?
      • Consonant Pronunciation Practice
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      • Slender “R”: The Lost Sound?
      • Take a Step Back – Review So Far
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  • Cúrsaí – Irregular Verbs – Part 2
    • Irregular verbs: Tar (Come): Imperative, present, past
    • Irregular verbs: Faigh (Get/Find): Imperative, present, past
    • Irregular verbs: Faigh (Get/Find): Future, verbal noun, verbal adjective
    • Irregular verbs: Feic (See): Imperative, present, past
    • Irregular verbs: Feic (See): Future, verbal noun, verbal adjective
    • Video: Irregular Verb: Ith (Eat)
    • Irregular verbs: Tabhair (Give): Imperative, present, past
    • Irregular verbs: Tabhair (Give): Future, verbal noun, verbal adjective
    • Irregular Verbs: Téigh (Go): Present
    • Irregular Verbs: Téigh (Go): Imperative
    • Irregular Verbs: Déan (Make/Do): Present
    • Irregular Verbs: Déan (Make/Do): Imperative
    • Irregular Verb: Ith (Eat)
    • Irregular verbs: Tar (Come): Future, verbal noun, verbal adjective
  • Cúrsaí – Doing Things and Telling the Date
    • Talking about pastimes conversation
    • Verbs: The past tense: negative
    • Video: Verbs: The past tense: negative
    • Verbs: Did you do it?
    • What did you do?
    • Adverbs of time
    • What is the date?
    • Verbs: The future tense: second conjugation
    • What will you do?
    • Verbs: The future tense: first conjugation
    • Verbs: Will you do it?
    • Music and instruments
    • Video: Telling the Date
  • Cúrsaí – Expressing Yourself
    • Irish Dialects Presentation: Overcoming Differences
    • Say it with Emphasis 2: Pronouns
    • Say it with Emphasis 1: Nouns
    • Best, Strongest, Fastest
    • Better, Stronger, Faster
    • I Prefer This
    • Video: Preferences
    • I Love It – I Hate It
    • Conversational Connectors
    • Video: Conversational Connectors
    • Say It With Emphasis: Pronouns
    • Say It With Emphasis: Nouns
  • Cúrsaí – Le Cairde agus Sa Bhaile
    • Finer points of saying goodbye
    • Saying goodbye conversation
    • Asking: isn’t?
    • Asking: who is?
    • What would you like to do?
    • Introductions & Relationships: This is my friend
    • Introductions & Relationships: A friend of mine
    • What is your home like?
    • Asking: why isn’t?
    • In the house
  • Cúrsaí – Love and Hate
    • Are you married?
    • Cursing: Shock, dismay, angry retorts
    • Cursing: Curses and name-calling
    • Love and terms of endearment
  • Cúrsaí – Introduction to Irregular Verbs
    • Irregular verbs: Abair (Say): Imperative
    • Irregular Verbs: Abair (Say): Present
    • Irregular verbs: Bí (Be): Future
    • Irregular verbs: Bí (Be): Past
    • Irregular verbs: Bí (Be): Present
    • Verbs: Forming the infinitive
    • Irregular verbs: Bí (Be): Imperative
    • Verbs: An introduction to the irregulars
  • Cúrsaí – Meals and Ordering Food
    • Ordering drinks in a restaurant
    • Drinks
    • Ordering food in a restaurant
    • Food and meals – dinner
    • Food and meals – lunch
    • Food and meals – breakfast
    • In a café
    • Video: Mealtime Phrases
  • Cúrsaí – Introduction to Nouns
    • Common prepositions: Two common ways to say
    • Simple prepositions
    • Video: Simple prepositions
    • Plural of nouns
    • Video: Plural of Nouns
    • Initial mutations: Four changes
  • Cúrsaí – Days, Months And Time
    • What is the time?
    • Video: Telling the time
    • Days of the week
    • Video: Days of the Week
    • Seasons and months
    • Video: Seasons and months
  • Cúrsaí – Ag Tosú Amach
    • Irish language alphabet
    • A word about dialects
    • Word order in sentences
  • Gaeilge Gach Lá Toolkit
    • Create a Mini-Gaeltacht Presentation
    • “Is Féidir Liom” Presentation
    • Gaeilge Gach Lá Calendar
    • “What’s Possible?” Map
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    • Taster – Learn Some New Words – Trasna na dTonnta
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    • Taster – Comhrá 01 Conversation Practice
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    • Taster – Pronouncing long vowels
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    • Taster – Video: Practice Of long vowels
    • Taster – Let’s Sing Trasna na dTonnta
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  • Cúrsaí – Phrases you can use every day!
    • Possession: Whose
    • Verbs: The past tense: affirmative
    • Possession: More about possessive adjectives
    • Possession: Using possessive adjectives
    • Video: Singular Possessive Adjectives
    • Up and down
    • Excuse Me, Please, Thank you
    • Video: Polite Phrases
  • Cúrsaí – Days and Holidays
    • Halloween
    • St. Patrick’s Day
    • Christmas
    • Video: Festive Greetings
    • Video: Holidays
    • Holidays
  • Cúrsaí – Crash Course: Nouns 2
    • Nouns: Gender: Adjectives and pronouns
    • Nouns: The genitive case with the definite article
    • Video: Declensions
    • Nouns: Finding the genitive form
    • Nouns: Gender: Determining gender
    • Nouns: Gender: The nominative and genitive cases
    • Video: Determining word gender
    • Video: Finding the genitive form
    • Nouns: Declensions
  • Cúrsaí – Crash course: Nouns 1
    • Video: Prepositional Pronouns
    • Video: The preposition ag (at)
    • Common prepositions: Other common ways to say
    • Common prepositions – ag (at)
    • Initial mutations: Eclipsis
    • Initial mutations: Lenition
    • Initial mutations: Prothesis
    • Prepositional Pronouns
  • Cúrsaí – Ask Questions in Irish
    • How to answer a question
    • How to ask a question
    • Video: Asking questions
    • How to answer negatively
    • Asking: why?
    • Where and When?
  • Cúrsaí – Meeting, Greeting & Introducing
    • Where are you from? (Cúrsaí)
    • Spelling rule
    • Greeting an acquaintance
    • Meeting a stranger (Cúrsaí)
    • Video: Where do you live?
    • Where do you live? (Cúrsaí)
    • Countries and nationalities (Cúrsaí)
    • Everyday phrases for conversation
    • Do you speak Irish?
    • Video: Everyday phrases
    • Slender and broad consonants: Single consonants
    • Introducing people (Cúrsaí)
    • Meeting, Greeting and Introducing!
    • Slender and broad consonants: Consonant groupings
    • Video: Caol le caol, leathan le leathan
    • Spelling rule
    • About Conversation Practice
  • Cúrsaí – Introduction: Pronunciation
    • Irish surnames
    • Nouns: The Vocative Case
    • Pronouncing Irish First Names
    • Pronouncing short vowels: Single vowels
    • Pronouncing long vowels: Single vowels
    • Video: Short vowel groupings
    • Podcast: Vowels
    • Pronouncing short vowels: Vowel groupings
    • Pronouncing long vowels: Vowel groupings
  • Cúrsaí – Your Guide to…Numbers and Counting
    • Numbers to 19 followed by a noun
    • Video: Counting things to 10
    • How old are you?
    • Video: Asking someone’s age
    • Ordinal numbers – 1st, 2nd, 3rd…
    • Counting people
    • Numbers over 20: Counting
    • Video: Counting people
    • Numbers over 20: Numbering things
  • Cúrsaí – Food and everything delicious!
    • Food and meals
    • Video: Ith (Eat)
    • Irregular verbs: Ith (Eat)
  • Cúrsaí – Starting with Numbers
    • Numbers to 20
    • Count from 1 to 10
    • Video: Count from 1 to 10
    • This and That
    • The definite article
  • Cúrsaí: Weather and Going Places
    • Irregular Verbs: Téigh (Go): Verbal Adjective
    • Video: Where?
    • Asking: where?
    • Weather phenomena
    • Video: The Weather
    • Talking about the weather
    • Video: Téigh – Go
    • Irregular verbs: Téigh (Go): Imperative
    • Irregular verbs: Téigh (Go): Present Tense
    • Irregular Verbs: Téigh (Go): Past
    • Irregular Verbs: Téigh (Go): Future
    • Irregular Verbs: Téigh (Go): Verbal Noun
  • Cúrsaí: Work and Words
    • Possession: Multiple owners
    • Professions, occupations
    • The workplace
    • Discussing jobs & professions
    • Verbs: The verbal adjective
    • Easily Confused Words: Similar-sounding words
    • Easily Confused Words: Words that look similar
    • Easily Confused Words: The importance of accent marks
    • Possession: Introducing the Genitive Case
    • Video: Possession – Our, Your, and Their
  • Cúrsaí – Your First Conversation as Gaeilge
    • Your first conversation
    • Video: Replying to Dia duit
    • Saying Hello back
    • Video: My Name Is
    • What’s your name?
    • How are you?
    • Video: Three ways to say How are you?
    • Video: Replying to How are you?
    • Saying goodbye
    • Video: Goodbye
    • How to start a conversation in Irish
    • I’m fine
    • And you?
    • I’m fine, thanks
  • Cúrsaí – Hobbies and your pastimes!
    • Sports and activities
    • Video: Talking about Hobbies
    • Hobbies
    • Irregular verbs: Bí (Be): Verbal noun
    • Colours
    • Verbs: Going, doing, seeing
    • Irregular Verbs: Déan (Make/Do): Past
    • Irregular Verbs: Déan (Make/Do): Present
  • Cúrsaí: A Trip Around Town
    • Video: Directions
    • Giving directions
    • Asking in a shop
    • Buildings and structures
    • Public signs
    • Amenities
    • Media and technology
    • Means of transport
    • Clothing
    • Body parts
    • Asking at a hotel
    • Booking a hotel room
    • Talking about your health
    • At the doctor’s office
    • Conversation in a shop
    • Animals
    • In the countryside
  • Sing a Song in Irish
    • Trasna na dTonnta
      • The Song’s Story – Trasna na dTonnta
      • Let’s Read Trasna na dTonnta
      • Learn Some New Words – Trasna na dTonnta
      • Let’s Sing Trasna na dTonnta
    • Beidh Aonach Amárach
      • The Song’s Story – Beidh Aonach Amárach
      • Let’s Read Beidh Aonach Amárach
      • Learn Some New Words – Beidh Aonach Amárach
      • Let’s Sing Beidh Aonach Amárach
    • Bean Pháidín
      • The Song’s Story – Bean Pháidín
      • Let’s Read Bean Pháidín
      • Learn Some New Words – Bean Pháidín
      • Let’s Sing Bean Pháidín
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    • Two Irish recipes
    • Why did you do that?
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    • Module 1: Meeting and Greeting
      • Saying hello
      • What’s your name?
      • How are you?
      • Saying goodbye
      • Your first conversation
      • Irish first names
      • Calling someone by name
      • Meeting a stranger
      • Greeting an old friend
    • Module 2: At Home
      • Where are you from?
      • Countries and nationalities
      • To be or not to be
      • Where do you live?
      • Placenames of Ireland
      • 7 Counties and provinces of Ireland
      • Talking about possession: my, your, his, her
      • In the house
      • What is your home like?
      • Upstairs downstairs
    • Module 3: Friends & Family
      • Talking about family
      • Are you married?
      • Counting people
      • To have or have not
      • Describing people
      • Family
      • This is my friend
      • Talking about love
      • Introducing people
      • Irish surnames
    • Module 4: Hobbies & Pastimes
      • Hobbies
      • Sports
      • I like to play
      • Music
      • The present tense
      • How often?
      • Gaelic games
      • Traditional music
      • Talking about pastimes
      • Games and Stories
    • Module 5: Working Life
      • What do you do?
      • Jobs and professions
      • Discussing jobs and professions
      • Do you like your job?
      • Workplaces
      • What is the time?
      • Days of the week
      • Daily routine
      • Months and seasons
      • What is the date?
    • Module 6: Food & Drink
      • Hunger, thirst (and other feelings)
      • Food
      • Drinks
      • Likes and Dislikes
      • Meals and Menus
      • Please and thank you
      • Shall we go out for dinner?
      • Ordering food in a restaurant
      • Ordering drinks in a restaurant
    • Module 7: At the Weekend
      • Taking it easy
      • Housework
      • Doing the shopping
      • What did you buy?
      • The past tense
      • Duties, obligations, abilities
      • The verbal noun
      • How was your weekend?
      • Purpose and reason
    • Module 8: A Trip around Town
      • Buying an outfit
      • Transport
      • Public signs
      • Giving directions
      • Places around town
      • A day trip
      • Asking in a shop
      • Conversation in a shop
      • Clothes and fashion
      • Colour, size, etc
    • Module 9: Weather & Travel
      • Weather
      • Comparing weather conditions
      • Talking about the weather
      • Where did you go?
      • North, south, east and west
      • Did you enjoy your holiday?
      • How was the weather?
      • Travel and tourism
      • Booking a hotel room
      • The weather forecast
    • Module 10: Plans & Celebrations
      • Making plans
      • New Year’s Resolutions
      • The future tense
      • A night on the town
      • Let’s go out tonight
      • Holidays and festivals
      • St. Patrick’s Day
      • Halloween
      • Christmas
      • Your favourite festival
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    • Three ways to say How are you?
    • Replying to How are you?
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    • Numbers and Counting – introduction
    • Basic numbers
    • Counting things
    • Counting people
    • Initial Mutations
      • Séimhiú (aka lenition)
      • Initial Mutations – Summary
      • H and T prothesis
      • Urú (aka eclipsis)
      • DNTLS (“dentals”)
      • Initial Mutations – introduction
    • Dealing with Dialects
      • Introduction to Dialects
      • Dialects – grammar
      • Dialects – vocabulary
      • Dialects – pronunciation
    • A Guide to Numbers and Counting
  • Cúrsaí – Cairde agus Clann
    • Family
    • Talking about family
    • Creating short sentences
    • Creating short negative sentences
    • Verbs: The present tense
    • Describing people
    • Verbs: to be
    • Video: to have
    • Verbs: to have
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    • Comhrá 06: You and Ireland
    • Comhrá 07: Faster, Slower
    • Comhrá 08: Choosing a Dinner
    • Comhrá 09: Directions
    • Comhrá 10: Arranging to meet a friend
    • Comhrá 11: Visiting family
    • Comhrá 12: Cooking Dinner
    • Comhrá 01: Introducing Yourself
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  • Cúrsaí – Irregular Verbs – Part 1
    • Irregular Verbs: Abair (Say): Verbal Noun
    • Irregular verbs: Beir (Birth/Bring/Take/Catch/Bite): Imperative
    • Irregular verbs: Beir (Birth/Bring/Take/Catch/Bite): Present
    • Irregular Verbs: Beir (Birth/Bring/Take/Catch/Bite): Past
    • Irregular Verbs: Beir (Birth/Bring/Take/Catch/Bite): Future
    • Irregular Verbs: Beir (Birth/Bring/Take/Catch/Bite): Verbal Noun
    • Irregular Verbs: Beir (Birth/Bring/Take/Catch/Bite): Verbal Adjective
    • Irregular verbs: Clois (Hear): Imperative
    • Irregular Verbs: Clois (Hear): Present
    • Irregular Verbs: Clois (Hear): Past
    • Irregular Verbs: Clois (Hear): Future
    • Irregular Verbs: Clois (Hear): Verbal Noun
    • Irregular Verbs: Clois (Hear): Verbal Adjective
    • Irregular Verbs: Déan (Make/Do): Imperative
    • Irregular Verbs: Déan (Make/Do): Future
    • Irregular Verbs: Déan (Make/Do): Verbal Noun
    • Irregular Verbs: Déan (Make/Do): Verbal Adjective
    • Irregular Verbs: Abair (Say): Verbal Adjective
    • Irregular Verbs: Abair (Say): Future
    • Video: (Be): Past, future, verbal noun
    • Irregular verbs: Bí (Be): Habitual
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    • Video: (Be): Past, future, verbal noun
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  • Crack Irish Pronunciation
    • Introduction: Be Your Own Master
      • Concepts We’ll Cover
      • Accept That It’s Different
      • Imagine You’re In the Gaeltacht
      • Set Your Expectations Low
    • These Five Letters Are Key
      • What Are The Vowels?
      • Vowels By Example
      • Core Concept: Short and Long Vowels
      • The “Fada” Accent Mark
      • Practice for Long Vowel Pronunciation
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    • Irregular verbs: Tar (Come): Imperative, present, past
    • Irregular verbs: Faigh (Get/Find): Imperative, present, past
    • Irregular verbs: Faigh (Get/Find): Future, verbal noun, verbal adjective
    • Irregular verbs: Feic (See): Imperative, present, past
    • Irregular verbs: Feic (See): Future, verbal noun, verbal adjective
    • Video: Irregular Verb: Ith (Eat)
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    • Irregular Verb: Ith (Eat)
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    • Verbs: The future tense: second conjugation
    • What will you do?
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      • Placenames of Ireland
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Video: (Be): Past, future, verbal noun

This video lesson is related to Irregular verbs: Bí (Be): Past, future, verbal noun which is the next lesson.

After this lesson, you will be able to use the verb bí to be in various different tenses.

Find out more about this verb in Irregular verbs: Bí (Be): Imperative, present, habitual.

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