Comparative Verb Clauses
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Comparative Verb Clauses
Okay, so I would like to know how to say something like: "I don't run as often as I would like"
where there is a verb clause involving "is".
Would it be "Cha bhi mi a' ruith cho tric ris bu toil leam?"
I haven't really run across many constructions like this so I'm pretty stumped.
Tapadh leibh!
where there is a verb clause involving "is".
Would it be "Cha bhi mi a' ruith cho tric ris bu toil leam?"
I haven't really run across many constructions like this so I'm pretty stumped.
Tapadh leibh!
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Re: Comparative Verb Clauses
I think "ris" only goes for comparing nouns. My gut reaction is 's : cho tric 's as toil leam, but I'm a learner and I've not been speaking the language much lately....
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Re: Comparative Verb Clauses
Tha Niall ceart... the first type applies to any sentence that follows that doesn't involve the copula is (is, 's, bu, b')
tha e cho mòr ri taigh
chan eil e cho mòr ri taigh
The other does:
cha bhi mi a' ruith cho tric 's a bu toigh leam
chan ith mi guga cho ainneamh 's a b' àbhaist dhomh
chuala mi seo cho tric 's nach toigh leam e tuilleadh
Note the last example is one where the copula is notionally there but not audible/visible.
tha e cho mòr ri taigh
chan eil e cho mòr ri taigh
The other does:
cha bhi mi a' ruith cho tric 's a bu toigh leam
chan ith mi guga cho ainneamh 's a b' àbhaist dhomh
chuala mi seo cho tric 's nach toigh leam e tuilleadh
Note the last example is one where the copula is notionally there but not audible/visible.
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Re: Comparative Verb Clauses
Awesome! Also, Akerbeltz, I'm having trouble parsing that last example. "I heard this as often as I don't like him more"?
Also, what if I wanted to say something like "I don't have as much as you."?
Also, what if I wanted to say something like "I don't have as much as you."?
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Re: Comparative Verb Clauses
I think this diverges into a somewhat different idiom. My first guess would be "chan eil an urad* agam 's a tha agad".caiptean wrote:Also, what if I wanted to say something like "I don't have as much as you."?
(* actually, my first guess was "uraid", but AFB says that's the genitive.)
That's more or less "I don't have the quantity/amount that** you have."
(** actually, plain "that" would be just "a", but I my gut says "'s a" is needed to be more "quantity like what you have". Without it, I think the urad would be implied to be same-thing-same, not essentially-equvalent-same.)
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Re: Comparative Verb Clauses
Caiptean - I could be wrong, but I think it's a slightly different format/structure/I'm-not-a-grammarian-I-don't-know-what-it's-called there. I'm thinking "I heard this so often that I don't like it anymore".
Bhiodh gaol agam oirbh gu bràth, ma cheartaicheadh sibh na mearachdan sa' phost os cionn!
Sgeul aigeantach mòr ri linn,
Gu'm bi neart, agus ceart, mar ri treòir,
Do'n fhear sheasas còir an rìgh.
Sgeul aigeantach mòr ri linn,
Gu'm bi neart, agus ceart, mar ri treòir,
Do'n fhear sheasas còir an rìgh.
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Re: Comparative Verb Clauses
More like "I heard this so often that I don't like to [hear it] any more".
"I don't have as much as you" - Chan eil agam uiread ribh/riut
"I don't have as much as you" - Chan eil agam uiread ribh/riut
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Re: Comparative Verb Clauses
Also, the 's in Akerbeltz' example is short for "agus".
Oileanach chànan chuthachail
Na dealbhan agam
Na dealbhan agam