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- Thu Apr 16, 2015 1:45 am
- Forum: Gràmar, Fuaimean is Gnàths / Grammar, Sounds and Expressions
- Topic: Le / leis before gach
- Replies: 30
- Views: 20093
Re: Le / leis before gach
Ok, well fair points. I think the examples with "le gach dùrachd" show a change in the language register and informal, spoken Gaelic being used in formal, written correspondence. Whether that is what you describe above, I'm not too sure. Emails are by their nature less formal, whereas taki...
- Wed Apr 15, 2015 8:58 pm
- Forum: Gràmar, Fuaimean is Gnàths / Grammar, Sounds and Expressions
- Topic: Le / leis before gach
- Replies: 30
- Views: 20093
Re: Le / leis before gach
all living languages are in a constant state of flux and the internal grammar of each generation differs slightly from one to the next. Question, akerbeltz. There are changes in the internal grammar of each generation because language is in a constant state of flux and there are changes in the inte...
- Wed Apr 15, 2015 8:37 pm
- Forum: Gràmar, Fuaimean is Gnàths / Grammar, Sounds and Expressions
- Topic: Le / leis before gach
- Replies: 30
- Views: 20093
Re: Le / leis before gach
If there was no correct grammar, there would be no correct grammar books. (incorrect grammar here) We're not talking about "Linguistically acceptable" or "Linguistically unacceptable", we're just talking about what is correct grammar and what isn't. You can say whatever you like ...
- Wed Apr 15, 2015 6:56 pm
- Forum: Gràmar, Fuaimean is Gnàths / Grammar, Sounds and Expressions
- Topic: Le / leis before gach
- Replies: 30
- Views: 20093
Re: Le / leis before gach
Correct grammar is correct grammar and if it's incorrect grammatically speaking, well, it's incorrect. Those examples are colloquial versus formal. I.e. spoken Gaelic versus written. If you incorrectly write le gach dùrachd or le gach deagh dhùrachd, you can always pass it off as being colloquial - ...
- Sun Apr 12, 2015 11:41 am
- Forum: Gràmar, Fuaimean is Gnàths / Grammar, Sounds and Expressions
- Topic: Le / leis before gach
- Replies: 30
- Views: 20093
Re: Le / leis before gach
It is always "leis" before "gach". native speaker, there's still the possibility that an all-pervasive non-native pattern in official use can get in the way of her native intuition/ Why is there this pervasive attitude among some learners that the correct grammar is somehow &quo...
- Thu Apr 09, 2015 5:22 pm
- Forum: Ràdh na Seachdaine
- Topic: Sitig de latha
- Replies: 2
- Views: 10312
Sitig de latha
'S fhada on a chuir mi sìon anns an roinn seo a chruthaich GunChleoc dhomh. Ach, bu toil leam cumail ris, ged nach tric a bhios mi cur ris.. Mar sin, seo abairt a th' air a cleachdadh ann an Uibhist / Beinn na Fadhla, agus dh'fhaoidte ann an àiteachan eile, airson droch shìde a mhìneachadh. Nam b' e...
- Tue Apr 07, 2015 12:13 am
- Forum: Gràmar, Fuaimean is Gnàths / Grammar, Sounds and Expressions
- Topic: Le / leis before gach
- Replies: 30
- Views: 20093
Re: Le / leis before gach
I should have written: "It is always correctly written as leis before gach." You will also find people writing things like: "bruidhinn ri na (daoine)", when it is correctly meant to be " ris na daoine", for example. It's understandable why though. It is always "lei...
- Fri Mar 20, 2015 10:48 pm
- Forum: Gràmar, Fuaimean is Gnàths / Grammar, Sounds and Expressions
- Topic: Le / leis before gach
- Replies: 30
- Views: 20093
Re: Le / leis before gach
It is always "leis" before "gach".
Le deagh dhùrachd.
Leis gach deagh dhùrachd.
Le deagh dhùrachd.
Leis gach deagh dhùrachd.
- Thu Mar 05, 2015 10:27 am
- Forum: Gràmar, Fuaimean is Gnàths / Grammar, Sounds and Expressions
- Topic: Syntax question
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3218
Re: Syntax question
You've taken the past tense of "Faic" (see) - chunnaic , and used it with the past tense of "bhith" (be) - bha. You can't do that. You can have Bha + subject + verbal noun. "Bha mi a' faicinn". However, what you needed to do was start with the past tense of "faic&q...
- Fri Feb 20, 2015 11:15 am
- Forum: Còmhradh coitcheann / Off-Topic
- Topic: What does this mean?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 18910
Re: What does this mean?
You're leading him off onto the wrong track there, Mairead. It seems it is just an incorrect spelling of Sliabh. The phrase Sliabh Bheannachaidh (Blessed/Holy Mountain) makes far more sense than "slippery blessing".
- Thu Feb 19, 2015 1:19 pm
- Forum: Còmhradh coitcheann / Off-Topic
- Topic: What does this mean?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 18910
Re: What does this mean?
Is "Sleamh" an erroneous spelling of SLIABH ? If so, the Sliabh Bheannachaidh would be the "holy mountain/hill". (Literally: of blessing) Beannachadh is used often to mean "holy" in Gaelic, particularly in Uist. e.g Tobar Beannaichte - Holy well (but literally "Ble...
- Thu Feb 19, 2015 1:13 pm
- Forum: Gràmar, Fuaimean is Gnàths / Grammar, Sounds and Expressions
- Topic: I am at a loss
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3418
Re: I am at a loss
You could say it like this: Tha (whatever the problem is) a' (dubh-)fhairtleachadh ormsa ..... (The "dubh" adds further oomph) or Tha e a' fairtleachadh orm dè ...(whatever the problem) or Tha mi air (mo) chall. (Metaphorically lost) (At a loss in sense of confusion metaphorically speaking...
- Sat Jan 03, 2015 12:26 pm
- Forum: Còmhradh coitcheann / Off-Topic
- Topic: Tuigidh fear-leughaidh leth-fhacal
- Replies: 1
- Views: 9430
Tuigidh fear-leughaidh leth-fhacal
Tha gu leòr de dheasbad a' dol an-dràsta mu chor na Gàidhlig mar nach eil cus a' nochdadh air an t-seanal "Ghàidhlig" BBC Alba na làithean sa. Ach, a bheil duine dhen aon bharail riumsa, gur e ainm an t-seanail a tha ag innse dhuinn carson nach eil uiread de Ghàidhlig ann 's a tha mòran ag...
- Sat Dec 27, 2014 9:48 pm
- Forum: Gràmar, Fuaimean is Gnàths / Grammar, Sounds and Expressions
- Topic: Quantifiers
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7187
Re: Quantifiers
Neither of you seem to have read Cymro's question properly. He or she is talking about the plural noun without the preposition de . Without "de", it's the plural genitive that follows. Otherwise, with "de" it is plural nominative (but lenited). It just so happens that some lenite...
- Fri Dec 26, 2014 10:03 am
- Forum: Gràmar, Fuaimean is Gnàths / Grammar, Sounds and Expressions
- Topic: Quantifiers
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7187
Re: Quantifiers
Genitive