So I’m learning Irish on duolingo, right? That’s all well and good. Except Irish is one of those languages where some sentences get really confusing. What I’m understanding so far is that verbs come first, except in the case of “to have” (side note why is “to have” always an irregular verb?).

So if you wanna say “I eat a sandwich” you say (in Irish) “I eat a sandwich”. If you want to say “I have a sandwich” you say “I a sandwich have”.

So far so good.

Then you get shit like this:

Which says “They eat the children”.

Verb-first languages are going to give me a heart attack.