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Dà cheist
Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2013 9:23 pm
by Marshal
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!
Re: Dà cheistean
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:31 am
by akerbeltz
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
but yes, it means
nice to meet you
Re: Dà cheistean
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 4:01 pm
by Thrissel
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?
Re: Dà cheist
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 4:24 pm
by Marshal
-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!
Re: Dà cheistean
Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2013 7:51 am
by Níall Beag
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?"...?
Re: Dà cheist
Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2013 10:50 am
by akerbeltz
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'.
Re: Dà cheist
Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2013 11:51 am
by poor_mouse
Agus dè mu dheidhinn "cia mheud"? A bheil sin airson rudan a-mhàin?
Re: Dà cheist
Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2013 1:55 pm
by akerbeltz
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
Re: Dà cheist
Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2013 1:57 pm
by poor_mouse
Mòran taing!
Re: Dà cheistean
Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 11:12 am
by GunChleoc
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.
Re: Dà cheist
Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 12:05 pm
by akerbeltz
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
