Lessoon Shey Feed as Shiaght-Jeig: Ny h-Imbaghyn
Lesson One Hundred and Thirty-Seven: The Seasons

shey feed as shiaght-jeig (SHAY-FEED-azz-SHAKH-jegg) - 137
imbagh (IMM-bakh) - season
imbaghyn (IMM-bakh-un) - seasons

Note the unusual plural for ‘imbagh’. We might have expected ‘imbee’ or ‘imbeeyn’, but the plural is actually ‘imbaghyn’.
Also, if we have ‘the’ (‘ny’) before a plural noun which starts with a vowel, in ‘classical Manx’ we insert the letter ‘h’, as in the title above.

Co-loayrtys
Ean: Cha lhiass dhyt boirey. Ta’n sourey ersooyl, bunnys. Bee eh feayr roish foddey. Ta’n fouyr as y geurey cheet.
Peddyr: S’mie shen. Cha nel mee er ve cho cheh as shoh sy vea ayms.
Ean: Foddee dy bee eh myr shoh dy chooilley hourey.
Peddyr: Nar lhig eh Jee! Ta mee jerkal dy bee eh fliugh sy gheurey as syn arragh. Ta ny doouryn bunnys follym nish.
Ean: Ny jean boirey. T’eh cliaghtey ceau ayns Mannin.

cha lhiass dhyt (ha-L’YASS-dut) - you need not
This is literally ‘not need to-you’. ‘I need’ is ‘s’lhiass dou’ (SL’YASS-dow) - ‘is need to-me’.

ersooyl (er-SOOL) - away; gone
bunnys (BUNN-iss) - nearly
roish foddey (rohsh-FAWTH-a) - before long
y fouyr (a-FOWR) - the autumn
y geurey (a-G’YOW-ra) - the winter

Cha nel mee er ve cho cheh as shoh (ha-NELL-mee-err-VAY-ho-CHAY-azz-SHAW) - I haven’t been so/as hot as this.
NOTE:
cho fliugh as (ho-FL’YUKH-azz) - so / as wet as
cho feayr as (ho-FOOR-azz) - so/as cold as

sy vea ayms (sa-VAY-imm-iss) - in my life
dy choilley hourey (the-KHULL-ya-HOW-ra) - every summer
‘dy chooilley’ changes ‘s’ to ‘h’.

Nar lhig eh Jee! (narr-L’YIGG-a-JEE) - God forbid!
ta mee jerkal (TAMM-ee-JERK-al) - I hope
syn arragh (sin-YARR-akh) - in the spring
ny doouryn (na-DOOR-un) - the reservoirs
follym (FOLL-um) - empty
ny jean boirey (na-JINN-BURR-a) - don’t worry
T’eh cliaghtey ceau (tay-KL’YAKH-ta-K’YOW) - it usually rains