Occupations

[MacCoinnich79]

I was sitting writing in Gaelic and tried to write the word runner. I realised I have no idea what it should be so I checked out how to form occupations from verbs or nouns. I am still none the wiser.

Ruithiche
Ruithear
Ruitheadair
Fear/Bean ruith

's e ruithiche a th' annam looks right to me.

's e ur beachd??

[poor_mouse]

Am Faclair Beag:

ruitheadair
fir. iol. -ean
runner

ruithear
fir. gin. -eir, iol. -an
runner

[MacCoinnich79]

Doh, bha mi a' cleachdadh leabhraichean aig an àm agus cha robh mi a' smaointinn idir. Mòran taing poor_mouse

[poor_mouse]

'S e do bheatha, a charaid!

[GunChleoc]

All your attempts are correctly formed, it is then a question of which of these people actually use

[MacCoinnich79]

So could any of the examples be used or is it a case of just learning the correct form for each occupation?

[GunChleoc]

It's always better to choose the form that people are actually using. Knowing how to make these up is still useful though, in case you can't remember or haven't learned a particular piece of vocabulary yet