Bhitheadhte?
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Bhitheadhte?
My understanding is that the response to a question in the conditional ("am biodh") should use the emphasised form "bhitheadh"
Am biodh Anna deònach fònadh thugam?
Bhithead/Cha bhitheadh
Am bitheadh?
Bhitheadh. Bhiodh i glè dhèonach
Now switch to the impersonal formof the conditional, where everything gets a "te" stuck on the end.
Am biodhte deònach fònadh thugam?
Is there a "te" form of bhithead - ie "bhitheadhte" - to be used in response?
Am biodh Anna deònach fònadh thugam?
Bhithead/Cha bhitheadh
Am bitheadh?
Bhitheadh. Bhiodh i glè dhèonach
Now switch to the impersonal formof the conditional, where everything gets a "te" stuck on the end.
Am biodhte deònach fònadh thugam?
Is there a "te" form of bhithead - ie "bhitheadhte" - to be used in response?
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Bhidheadhte?
Yes but you've over-constructed the forms It's just am bite? bhite in the conditional.
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Bhidheadhte?
Note that some of these have both short and long (emphatic) forms: Bhiodh - Bhitheadh. Just use bhiodh when you write, and you'll be OK.
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Bhidheadhte?
Whoa - what I have from SMO's An Cursa Adhartais is:
[sorry about the loss of formatting above - I intended that this should be displayed as two columns headed by tha and bhiodh respectively - unfortunately the browser strips out multiple spaces. I hope you can work it out]
Are you saying you'd prefer the second 'column' to read as follows :
bhiodh
bhite
cha bhite
am bite?
nach bite?
.. gum bite
SMO advice on a question posed in the impersonal is to revert initially to the appropriate tense of the personal form, so:
A bheilear ag obair air an rathad ùr an-drasta
Tha. Thathar ag obair air NO Chan eil. Chan eilear ag obair air.
But they didn't say anything about the impersonal conditional. I thought I was just following up on a minor details (the emphasised form). This is looking like a much bigger issue.
Is this contentious?
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tha bhiodh
thathar bhiodhte
chan eilear cha bhiodhte
a bheilear? am biodhte?
nach eilear? nach biodhte?
.. gu bheilear .. gum biodhte
Are you saying you'd prefer the second 'column' to read as follows :
bhiodh
bhite
cha bhite
am bite?
nach bite?
.. gum bite
SMO advice on a question posed in the impersonal is to revert initially to the appropriate tense of the personal form, so:
A bheilear ag obair air an rathad ùr an-drasta
Tha. Thathar ag obair air NO Chan eil. Chan eilear ag obair air.
But they didn't say anything about the impersonal conditional. I thought I was just following up on a minor details (the emphasised form). This is looking like a much bigger issue.
Is this contentious?
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Bhidheadhte?
The parallel is:
A bheil thu - Tha. Tha mi...
A bheilear? Tha. Thathar...
The first "Tha" lacks the information about the person in both cases - the person for the 2nd one just happens to be impersonal.
A bheil thu - Tha. Tha mi...
A bheilear? Tha. Thathar...
The first "Tha" lacks the information about the person in both cases - the person for the 2nd one just happens to be impersonal.
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Well, you had bhitheadhte to begin with, which is definitely overkill. SMO bhiodhte is, hm, controversial? I cannot think of an instance of the impersonal conditional where the -dh- actually makes an appearance. I suspect bhiodhte is hypercorrection because the phonetics of bhite are /vihdʲə/ which is not far off what you'd get from bhiodhte which would be */vjɤhdʲə/ in very careful speech but in normal speech probably reduced to */vəhdʲə/; cf. bhitheadh /vi.əɣ/ ~ bhiodh /vjɤɣ ~ və(ɣ)/.
Bhite is certainly more common.
Bhite is certainly more common.
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Bhidheadhte?
Thuirt, ann an dòigh co-dhiù. Seall air an t-seantans dìreach ron eisimpleir a chur thu:
Mar sin (spelling aside):When answering a question formed with a bheilear (or one of the impersonal verbs in the other tenses), you respond with tha or chan eil (or the relevant form depending on tense) e.g., …
- Am biodhte a' dèanamh sin?
- Bhiodh. Bhiodhte a' dèanamh sin. [no] Cha bhiodh. Cha bhiodhte a' dèanamh sin.
A bheil thusa ag obair air An Cùrsa Adhartais cuideachd ma-thà, no a bheil thu air a chrìochnachadh?
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Well, you did though
and in thisNow switch to the impersonal formof the conditional, where everything gets a "te" stuck on the end.
Am biodhte deònach fònadh thugam?
Is there a "te" form of bhithead - ie "bhitheadhte" - to be used in response?
this can't be anything but an impersonal conditional.chan eilear cha bhiodhte
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Duilich, a h-uile duine. It had never occurred to me that SMO might include the conditional as a tense. I'm a bit freaked by all this just now - especially the appearance of the emphatic variation of the conditional - and my aging brain seems to have reached its limit!
But that's my original question effectively answered I think - no need to worry about "bitheadhte" as it never arises in a straightforward question/yes-no exchange in the impersonal conditional
I can, however find at least one case where the emphatic form appears independently of a straightforward yes/no response:
First, a "personal" version:
Am biodh sibh ag obair a h-uile Lunain?
Cha bhitheadh. Cha bhiomaid ag obair a h-uile oidhche Lunain idir.
Cuin a bhidheadh sibh ag obair ma-tha?
Now put that into the impersonal :
Am biodhte ag obair a h-uile Lunain?
Cha bhiodh. Cha bhiodhte ag obair a h-uile oidhche Lunain idir.
Cuin a ? ag obair ma-tha?
I think I'll have a lie-down as I've got more things to worry about just now - and I'm sure you do too!!
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But that's my original question effectively answered I think - no need to worry about "bitheadhte" as it never arises in a straightforward question/yes-no exchange in the impersonal conditional
I can, however find at least one case where the emphatic form appears independently of a straightforward yes/no response:
First, a "personal" version:
Am biodh sibh ag obair a h-uile Lunain?
Cha bhitheadh. Cha bhiomaid ag obair a h-uile oidhche Lunain idir.
Cuin a bhidheadh sibh ag obair ma-tha?
Now put that into the impersonal :
Am biodhte ag obair a h-uile Lunain?
Cha bhiodh. Cha bhiodhte ag obair a h-uile oidhche Lunain idir.
Cuin a ? ag obair ma-tha?
I think I'll have a lie-down as I've got more things to worry about just now - and I'm sure you do too!!
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Bhidheadhte?
I'd maybe be careful about switching between emphatic/regular forms in the one answer there, thinking in terms of SMO marking. I've a feeling they'd want that consistent.
Tha mise a' dèanamh Modal 5 an dràsta cuideachd — ’s e Gilleasbuig a tha gam theagaisg. Cò an tidsear agad fhèin?Cha bhitheadh. Cha bhitheamaid ag obair a h-uile oidhche Luain idir.
[no]
Cha bhiodh. Cha bhiomaid ag obair a h-uile oidhche Luain idir.
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Bhidheadhte?
Tha an t-eisimplir sin bhon mhìneachadh Modal 4 comhradh 2. Obh obh, tha seo na bùrach!
Tha Gilleasbuig gam theagaisg cuideachd - oidchche Luain 7.15. 'S e Martainn bho Milburn an seo. Cò tha "ithinkitsnice"???
Tha Gilleasbuig gam theagaisg cuideachd - oidchche Luain 7.15. 'S e Martainn bho Milburn an seo. Cò tha "ithinkitsnice"???
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Looks fine, apart from spelling (bhidheadh » bhitheadh) and Lunain (??) » (Di)Luain.Am biodh sibh ag obair a h-uile Lunain?
Cha bhitheadh. Cha bhiomaid ag obair a h-uile oidhche Lunain idir.
Cuin a bhidheadh sibh ag obair ma-tha?
Yas, the missing one is also cuin a bhiodhte. Possibly Cha bhiodh » cha bhiodhte but I have not found consensus on agreement with the question in some of these amongst native speakers so I wouldn't get the red pen out.Am biodhte ag obair a h-uile Lunain?
Cha bhiodh. Cha bhiodhte ag obair a h-uile oidhche Lunain idir.
Cuin a ? ag obair ma-tha?
No, that's kosher. At least linguistically, can't speak for marking, there's a lot of marking done which is on shaky linguistic ground. Anyway, it depends on the emphaticness (emphaticicity? emphe?) of the answer. It's like someone asking "do you work Mondays?" to which you can respond "No" or, slightly more emphatically "No bloody way".I'd maybe be careful about switching between emphatic/regular forms in the one answer there, thinking in terms of SMO marking. I've a feeling they'd want that consistent.
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Oomphakerbeltz wrote:emphaticness (emphaticicity? emphe?)
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'S e do bheatha
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