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Hmm...OK - I had seen where sgàil could also mean "shade" so I wasn't sure. So - "faileas" - how would you put that in the genitive plural "of (the) shadows"?? Also, could someone give me a quick pronunciation of the word; sorry, I'm more familiar with Irish Gaelic.......

of shadows could be nan sgàilean, nam faileas or nan sgàth.

Your construction though is a little more complicated; I would say:

Thug na daoine a bha a' seasamh an aghaidh na h-uinneige bad de dh'fhaileasan/sgàilean/sgàthan

Although, their may be a more idiomatic way of saying it.

eideard wrote:

Stìophan wrote: Chaidh ceud taighean air an togail an-uiridh

100 houses were built last year

Carson nach Chaidh ceud taighean a thogail an-uiridh ?
100 houses were built last year.

Thu thu ceart Eideird!

Bha cabhag orm nuair a bha mi a' freagairt

Bidh mise a' cleachdach am fear le 'rach' gu math tric a bhith ag innse mu dheidhinn rudeigin a thachair mu thràth m.e. :

Chaidh ceud taighean air an togail an-uiridh

100 houses were built last year

'S e is chan e a Sheonaidh.

Nan sealladh tu aig seann leabhar Gàidhlig chitheadh tu dhuit.

m.e. Gaelic Self Taught

Tha dhuit air a chleachdadh ann an Gaeilge cuideachd.

dhuit is actually pre-pre GOC (i.e before the first spelling reform), as I learnt with SOL (which used dhut) which was essentially pre-GOC

I would say giant is fuamhar, there is a place nearby my home town (Dingwall) called Novar which in Gaelic is Taigh an Fhuamhair (House of the Giant).

No idea what Troll is though!

An Gobaire wrote:I would say "a'dol dha na bùithtean." but I don't know which one is standard.

do na bùthan, or dha na bùithtean.

I would say dha na + plural is more common nowadays e.g.

Tha mi a' dol dha na Blàran Odhar

I'm going to Bettyhill

Ahem, what has whether words are lenited (or not) got to do with the fact that computers were invented? :? It's always going to be difficult for a language accepting borrowed words where they include sounds that do not exist in that language, in Gaelic's case they DO exist (well, the sounds, not the...

Tha e aice cuideachd "New spelling and words": Bhideo > Video Bhiosa > Visa Bhodca > Vodka Bhasa > Vase Chanainn-sa gum bitheadh e na b'fheàrr dhan chànan nan cruthaicheadh iad faclan ùra an àite na a bhith cleachdadh faclan le litreachadh Bheurla, no cleachd faclan Gàidhlig far a bheil f...

Tha e aice cuideachd "New spelling and words": Bhideo > Video Bhiosa > Visa Bhodca > Vodka Bhasa > Vase Chanainn-sa gum bitheadh e na b'fheàrr dhan chànan nan cruthaicheadh iad faclan ùra an àite na a bhith cleachdadh faclan le litreachadh Bheurla, no cleachd faclan Gàidhlig far a bheil f...

Cha mholainn-sa GOC idir http://www.foramnagaidhlig.net/foram/im ... n_rant.gif

Agreed, that does indeed put it in a nutshell! 8-) I must admit other than my aforementioned confusion with smaoineachadh etc ... I do actually find most of the Gaelic tenses easy. My main problem is using the conditional, especially when there's 'ifs' involved, although I'm getting better at it. :)

Yes, I agree with you there as well neoni, I think Saoilidh mi etc is a bit stronger than tha mi a' smaoineachadh.

Saoil, can also be used in the context of imagine as well as think:

Saoil gu bheil e ceart! Imagine he's right

neoni wrote:you do see smaoinich mi and cha do smaoinich mi, though

Ah, wasn't sure what the 'root' of smaoineachadh was!

Thanks for that Neoni!

Do you use Smaoinich mi gun do X for I thought that X

I always tend to use Bha mi a' smaoineachadh