Dà cheist

Marshal · Unread post by **Marshal** » Mon Apr 22, 2013 9:23 pm

Tha dà cheist agamsa.

Ciamar a chanas mi "How many Gaels do you know" anns a' Ghàidhlig? Cò mheud Gàidheal...?

Agus chunnaic mi an gnàth seo, ach cha urrain dhomh cuimhneachad an ceart abairt. Bha sin mar: "tha mi toilichte coinneachad ribh" no rud mar sin. A bheil sin a' ciallachadh "nice to meet you"?

Tapadh leibh!

Unread post by **akerbeltz** » Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:31 am

dà cheistean > dà cheist, by the way

How many Gaels do you know

Cò mheud Gàidheal a tha thu eòlach orra?

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tha mi toilichte coinneachad reibh

tha mi toilichte coinneachadh ribh but yes, it means nice to meet you

Thrissel · Unread post by **Thrissel** » Tue Apr 23, 2013 4:01 pm

akerbeltz wrote:
How many Gaels do you know
Cò mheud Gàidheal a tha thu eòlach orra?

Am faod an roimhear a dhol roimhe "cò mheud"? Tha mi a' ciallachadh, am biodh "Air cò mheud Gàidheal a tha thu eòlach?" ceart cuideachd?

Marshal · Unread post by **Marshal** » Tue Apr 23, 2013 4:24 pm

-Cò mheud Gàidheal a tha thu eòlach orra? (no cò mheud Gàidheal a tha thu eòlach?) agus -Tha mi toilichte coinneachad ribh, ma-thà.

Mòran taing!

Unread post by **Níall Beag** » Thu Apr 25, 2013 7:51 am

akerbeltz wrote:dà cheistean > dà cheist, by the way

How many Gaels do you know
Cò mheud Gàidheal a tha thu eòlach orra?

Does the 's construction work here, ie "Cò mheud G1aidheal 's tusa eòlach orra?"...?

Unread post by **akerbeltz** » Thu Apr 25, 2013 10:50 am

Cò mheud Gaidheal 's tusa eòlach orra?

Well, yes and no. It's grammatical I guess but it suggests something else. It's not just a neutral question anymore (meaning that 's mise eòlach ort is not a grammatical sentence by itself, so the 's cannot be the copula, it must the the logical linking agus).

I would interpret this as a somewhat unidiomatic way of saying uiread a Ghàidheil 's tusa eòlach orra i.e. 'look, so many Gaels and you know them all'.

poor_mouse · Unread post by **poor_mouse** » Thu Apr 25, 2013 11:51 am

Agus dè mu dheidhinn "cia mheud"? A bheil sin airson rudan a-mhàin?

Unread post by **akerbeltz** » Thu Apr 25, 2013 1:55 pm

The differences between those are down to dialect (sorry, no pins for cia meud yet and cia mheud isn't that clear as a pattern yet but AFAIKT it's mostly southern)
co mheud
co meud
cia mheud

poor_mouse · Unread post by **poor_mouse** » Thu Apr 25, 2013 1:57 pm

Mòran taing!

Unread post by **GunChleoc** » Sun Apr 28, 2013 11:12 am

Thrissel wrote:Am faod an roimhear a dhol roimhe "cò mheud"? Tha mi a' ciallachadh, am biodh "Air cò mheud Gàidheal a tha thu eòlach?" ceart cuideachd?

Cha chreid mi gum faod thu dad a chur ro fhaclan ceiste idir.

Unread post by **akerbeltz** » Sun Apr 28, 2013 12:05 pm

Air cò mheud Gàidheal a tha thu eòlach

Chan eil, mar a thuirt GunChleoc. Well, chan ann an deagh Ghàidhlig. Cò aig a tha brath air nas urrainn dhut dèanamh ann an droch Ghàidhlig

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