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- Sun Jul 28, 2019 12:42 pm
- Forum: Gràmar, Fuaimean is Gnàths / Grammar, Sounds and Expressions
- Topic: 'A thoirt leam' vs 'còmhla rium fhin' for 'with me'
- Replies: 3
- Views: 13592
'A thoirt leam' vs 'còmhla rium fhin' for 'with me'
Think of còmhla ri (in its various guises) as "in the company of" rather than simply "with".
- Sun Jun 16, 2019 1:58 pm
- Forum: Faclaireachd / Lexicography
- Topic: mòr darach
- Replies: 9
- Views: 26654
mòr darach
Beaucoup de "maybe" ...
- Fri Jun 14, 2019 10:50 am
- Forum: Gràmar, Fuaimean is Gnàths / Grammar, Sounds and Expressions
- Topic: Fàgail vs falbh for 'leaving', is there any difference?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 23465
Fàgail vs falbh for 'leaving', is there any difference?
There has to be an object with fàgail. Think of it as "leave something" i.e. a' fàgail Glaschu, fàg an sashimi ud... but falbh doesn't need one i.e. tha mi a' falbh and can't actually take one unless you slap it on with a prep i.e. a' falbh leis a' ghaoith.
- Mon Jun 03, 2019 7:36 pm
- Forum: Ceòl, Leabhraichean is na h-Ealain / Music, Books and the Arts
- Topic: Help interpret song recording?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 16623
Help interpret song recording?
Tricky one ... she's not easy to understand. I've made the following amendments, maybe someone else can pick out something based on that? The -s in bhois goes with the 's in the following line, pretty sure. Bheir mi ò hu ò hò bheir mi ò hu ò hì bheir mi òro eile bhò 's mi fo leòn ga do dhìth 'S ioma...
- Sun Jun 02, 2019 4:10 pm
- Forum: Ceòl, Leabhraichean is na h-Ealain / Music, Books and the Arts
- Topic: Help interpret song recording?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 16623
Help interpret song recording?
She sings fo leòn, not fo leamhan
It would help if you posted what you have transcribed so far so we don't have to do it from scratch? Just makes it a bit quicker.
It would help if you posted what you have transcribed so far so we don't have to do it from scratch? Just makes it a bit quicker.
- Fri Apr 05, 2019 8:27 pm
- Forum: Dà-chànanach / Bilingual
- Topic: Island Voices Moot?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 18369
Island Voices Moot?
Seadh, tha mi ag aontachadh, bhiodh e nas fheàrr earrann shònraichte a chruthachadh an-seo na làrach eile - tha e cho doirbh critical mass a lorg - tha fiù an t-àite seo fhèin car sàmhach aig amannan. Agree, better to have a special section on here than a new site, it's so hard to get critical mass,...
- Mon Mar 25, 2019 12:54 pm
- Forum: Ceòl, Leabhraichean is na h-Ealain / Music, Books and the Arts
- Topic: Are there any films made in Gàidhlig language?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 27601
Are there any films made in Gàidhlig language?
While not fully in Gaelic, there's a lot of Gaelic in An Ceasnachadh.
From what I've heard, The Eagle doesn't use anything native speakers would recognise as Gaelic.
From what I've heard, The Eagle doesn't use anything native speakers would recognise as Gaelic.
- Sat Mar 23, 2019 8:02 pm
- Forum: Faclaireachd / Lexicography
- Topic: Am Faclair Beag - Faclan a dh'fhaodadh cur ann
- Replies: 9
- Views: 24418
Am Faclair Beag - Faclan a dh'fhaodadh cur ann
Mòran taing a-rithist, chuir mi ceart an deàrrsadh agus chuir mi ris an deàrrsach eile!
- Sat Mar 23, 2019 7:57 pm
- Forum: Gràmar, Fuaimean is Gnàths / Grammar, Sounds and Expressions
- Topic: Cait' Caite/ bheil
- Replies: 6
- Views: 17547
Cait' Caite/ bheil
Mmm it's mostly down to people not quite getting the way Gaelic sounds and the Gaelic writing system works. Càite is a contraction of an old question word, let's just say c- and àite. Now, how this is exactly pronounced depends on mainly on two questions: a) what comes after the càite and b) where i...
- Sat Feb 16, 2019 8:52 pm
- Forum: Gràmar, Fuaimean is Gnàths / Grammar, Sounds and Expressions
- Topic: Correct/most natural forms of the conditional tense of 'to be'
- Replies: 4
- Views: 13536
Correct/most natural forms of the conditional tense of 'to be'
There's a chapter in Blas on short and long forms, I forget which page. In particular irregular verbs have long (stressed) and short (unstressed) forms. The variations go from hiatus with emphatic endding > hiatus > long vowel > short vowel > reduced vowel > no vowel, though not all verbs have all &...
- Mon Feb 04, 2019 10:55 pm
- Forum: Gràmar, Fuaimean is Gnàths / Grammar, Sounds and Expressions
- Topic: Use of Genitive
- Replies: 8
- Views: 17504
Use of Genitive
I don't see the element of possession in bus-sgoile, to be honest. It doesn't necessarily belong to the school, mostly they belong to the council or are some hire company on a council contract
- Mon Feb 04, 2019 6:20 pm
- Forum: Gràmar, Fuaimean is Gnàths / Grammar, Sounds and Expressions
- Topic: Use of Genitive
- Replies: 8
- Views: 17504
Use of Genitive
It's the same thing. I think what confuses you is this dratted new term some people introduced, the "possessive case". Not that "genitive" is without problems but I find possessive even more misleading than "genitive". There are 3 (off the top of my head) ways in which ...
- Wed Jan 30, 2019 8:42 pm
- Forum: Gràmar, Fuaimean is Gnàths / Grammar, Sounds and Expressions
- Topic: Let's Get Negative!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 10500
Let's Get Negative!
Yes, gramatically you're correct though logically, these would require a very odd situation
Tha mi ag ithe an arain nach eil mo mhàthair a' fuineadh.
Bha mi ag ithe an arain nach robh mo mhàthair a' fuineadh.
Bidh mi ag ithe an arain nach bi mo mhàthair a' fuineadh.
- Sun Jan 13, 2019 12:13 pm
- Forum: Faclaireachd / Lexicography
- Topic: Am Faclair Beag - Faclan a dh'fhaodadh cur ann
- Replies: 9
- Views: 24418
Am Faclair Beag - Faclan a dh'fhaodadh cur ann
Glan, mòran taing!
- Tue Jan 08, 2019 12:38 pm
- Forum: Faclaireachd / Lexicography
- Topic: Am Faclair Beag - Faclan a dh'fhaodadh cur ann
- Replies: 9
- Views: 24418
Am Faclair Beag - Faclan a dh'fhaodadh cur ann
An e sin Iain a sgrìobh Dùn Àluinn?