Re: Verb-initial languages

> Hmm... i can't find that exact sentence in my textbook, but
> it does have:
>
> Nach é an fear? = "Isn't he the man?"
But shouldn't that be 'nach bhfuil...'? Otherwise the sentence doesn't
seem to contain a finite verb at all. ‘Fuil’ is the dependent form of
‘tá’, BTW. (though stems from the OIr. For ‘to see’)

Or is 'nach' the negative interrogative form of 'is'? Then it looks
strange, because 'is'-sentences are VOS, and this one is VSO - as
'tá'-sentences are - and if it's VSO, it should be _sé_, not _é_.

Pavel
(whose Irish is still rather elementary)

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Is mall a mharcaicheas am fear a bheachdaicheas
                 --Scottish proverb