Collective nouns

[MartinJ]

An urrainn do chuideigin m' innse ciamar a tha "collectives" ag obair anns a' Gàidhlig?

For instance, how would you say "History has been made"?

MJ

[GunChleoc]

I found this in DASG:

... is bitheanta gu ' m bheil eachdraidh rìoghachdan gu mòr air a dèanamh a ...

(accents added by me)

Does this help?

I guess the tricky thing here is to know when to use the article and when to drop it. For example, there is also this expression:

Tha a' mheanbh-chuileag dona an-diugh - the midges are bad today. Gaelic uses the singular here, so it has sort of a collective meaning.

[MartinJ]

Tapadh leat a GhunChleoc.

So - context is all. 'S toil leam sin. Gives the poetry a chance.

MJ