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Negation of guma
Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 7:01 am
by GunChleoc
I want to negate the following sentence:
Guma bi mi fada a' tighinn
Dè am facal ceart? gus nach?
Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 1:03 pm
by akerbeltz
Guma bi mi fada a' tighinn
That doesn't work for starters.
Guma has to be followed by an adjective (or directly preceded in poetic language):
guma math a théid leat...
guma beò thu...
guma slàn thu...
For anything else, you need to use
gun/gur:
gum faigh thu bàs...
gun doirear dhut duais...
gur taigh a gheibh thu...
What were you trying to say with the above?
Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 4:07 pm
by GunChleoc
May it not be long until...
Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 5:10 pm
by Gràisg
Na bitheadh e ro fhada gus...
dè ur beachd a chàirdean?
Gaeli verbs p26 verbal noun (imperative mood to give a negative order)
'The Imperative Mood is made negative by being preceeded by na.
and p63 the Regular verb imperative mood.
'òltar e, may it be drunk'
'The negative is na buailtear iad etc, "may they not be struck" etc.'
Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 6:43 pm
by akerbeltz
Na bitheadh e ro fhada gus...
Yup, you need an imperative form of a verb after the word
na.
òlam > na òlam
òl > na òl
òladh e/i/iad > na òladh e/i/iad
òlamaid > na òlamaid
òlaibh > na òlaibh
So for "let it not be too long before..."
na bitheadh e ro fhada gus/mus
You see that on some roadsigns in the second person -
na bi fada gun tilleadh.
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:09 am
by GunChleoc
Tapadh leibh, 's e seo na bha mi a' sireadh
