Ciamar a tha an t-sìde / How's the weather?

Unread post by **GunChleoc** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 6:42 pm

Looks good to me.

Mairead wrote:Which thing are you correcting to "sna làithean seo"?

san -> sna

Agnieszka · Unread post by **Agnieszka** » Tue Aug 11, 2015 12:56 pm

Tha e glè bhlàth an seo a-nis. (Tha mi Pòlannach)

It's very warm here now. (I'm Polish)

poor_mouse · Unread post by **poor_mouse** » Tue Aug 11, 2015 2:40 pm

Agnieszka wrote:Tha mi Pòlannach -- I'm Polish

'S e bana-Phòlannach a tha annam -- literally: it's a Polish woman that is in me.

Agus a bheil thu anns a' Phòlainn an-dràsda?

And are you in Poland now?

Agnieszka · Unread post by **Agnieszka** » Tue Aug 11, 2015 5:46 pm

Tha, tha mi anns a a' Phòlainn a-nis.

Yes, I'm in Poland now.

Unread post by **faoileag** » Tue Aug 11, 2015 10:14 pm

Fàilte, Agnieska!

Càite a bheil thu sa Phòlainn?

Welcome, A. Where are you in Poland?

Unread post by **GunChleoc** » Wed Aug 12, 2015 9:16 am

Tha, tha mi anns a' Phòlainn an-dràsta - "a-nis" always means a change (e.g. you just arrived there).

Agnieszka · Unread post by **Agnieszka** » Wed Aug 12, 2015 11:12 am

(It's good to know about "a-nis" - I'm learning Gaelic for a few days only.

)

Tha mi anns a' Wroclaw a' Phòlainn an-dràsta.

I'm in Wroclaw in Poland now.

MarcMacUilleim · Wed Aug 12, 2015 12:55 pm

GunChleoc wrote:"a-nis" always means a change (e.g. you just arrived there).

Really? / Gu fìor?

Unread post by **akerbeltz** » Wed Aug 12, 2015 4:13 pm

Yes, it's the difference between an-dràsta and a-nis. I always tell beginners to mentally tr*nsl*t* a-nis as "now, but not earlier"

Agnieszka · Unread post by **Agnieszka** » Wed Aug 12, 2015 6:05 pm

Tha latha soilleir, glè bhlath, glè tioram is dona ann an-diugh a' Wroclaw...

The day is bright, very warm, vwery dry and bad today in Wroclaw...

LilithNoor · Unread post by **LilithNoor** » Sat Aug 15, 2015 9:45 am

Bha droch shìde ann an Birmingham an dè. Coisichte mi gun oifis agus bha mo chotan bog-fliuch.

It was dreadful weather in Birmingham yesterday. I walked to the office and my feet were soaking wet.

MarcMacUilleim · Sat Aug 15, 2015 11:05 am

Agnieszka wrote:glè tioram

...glè thioram...

MarcMacUilleim · Sat Aug 15, 2015 11:08 am

LilithNoor wrote:Coisichte mi gun oifis

Choisich mi dhan oifis - "gun oifis" would mean "without an office".

LilithNoor wrote:agus bha mo chotan bog-fliuch.

... mo chasan...

LilithNoor · Unread post by **LilithNoor** » Sat Aug 15, 2015 6:37 pm

Tapadh leat a Mharc.

Was posting without my glasses on which never helps. Definitely meant feet rather than coat!

I am still very much at sea once I leave the safe coast of the present participle.

Feumaidh me ag ionnsachadh an tràth caithte. I must learn the past tense.

Tha i nas teotha an-diugh agus tha i grianach. Tha mi a nighe na h-aodachaich-leapa. It's warmer today and it's sunny. I'm going to wash the bed linen.

MarcMacUilleim · Sat Aug 15, 2015 7:31 pm

LilithNoor wrote:Feumaidh me ag ionnsachadh an tràth caithte. I must learn the past tense.

Feumaidh mi an tràth caithte ionnsachadh. Inversion with direct object apart from when you don't (see below).

LilithNoor wrote:Tha mi a nighe na h-aodachaich-leapa. I'm going to wash the bed linen.

"Tha mi a' nighe an aodaich-leapa" means "I'm washing the bed clothes". Note that "aodach-leapa" (singular in Gaelic) already means bed clothes (plural in English), cf "Chuir mi m'aodach orm" = "I put my clothes on". Correct written Gaelic says that direct object nouns following verbal nouns take the genitive case; "an t-aodach-leapa" in the nominative becomes "an aodaich-leapa" in the genitive.

However, if you really want to say that you are going to wash the bed clothes, i.e. you haven't started yet but are about to, then you'd say: "Tha mi a' dol a nighe an t-aodach-leapa" - no apostrophe, no genitive.

See lots more examples here: http://taic.me.uk/leasan8.htm

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