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bi aig/ have
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 7:42 pm
by clarsach
I looked this up today. Is this correct usage:
Bi aig Sina falt fada. Jane has long hair.
Bi aig Thomais car ùr. Tom has a new car.
Also just as chan eil is the negative of tha, what would be the negative of bi aig? (How would I say so and so doesn't have such and such.)
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 8:36 pm
by GunChleoc
Here's a list:
Tha falt fada aig Sìne - Jane has long hair
Tha car ùr aig Tòmas - Tom has a new car
Bidh falt fada aig Sìne - Jane will have long hair
Bidh car ùr aig Tòmas - Tom will have a new car
Bha falt fada aig Sìne - Jane had long hair
Bha car ùr aig Tòmas - Tom had a new car
The negative goes like this:
Tha - Chan eil
Bidh - Cha bhi
Bha - Cha robh
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 9:07 pm
by clarsach
Moran taing.
That's how I was originally thinking through such sentences (without the aig, though), but then I thought it technically says Jane IS long hair, Tom IS new car. But 'tha+aig' means 'has' in that context?
Where does the bi aig in the dictionary come from?
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 11:45 pm
by faoileag
Tha X aig Y literally means: Is X at Y,
i.e. Is long hair at Jean = Jean has long hair.
(This is not a question, just the standard word-order in Gaelic.)
'bi' is the stem or basic form of tha/bidh/bha etc - it means '(to) be', and is the part of the verb you look up in a dictionary.
Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 3:44 am
by clarsach
Moran taing!
Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 10:06 pm
by Níall Beag
Isn't hair like a body part though? I thought you had hair on you... tha falt dubh oirre and all that....
Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 7:18 am
by GunChleoc
Yep, I think you're right
Maybe Sìne is wearing a wig
Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 9:40 pm
by Seonaidh
Tha Beurla agam - Is English at-me - I have English - used to say, roughly, "I can speak English". Now a test Harpo:-
Tha Cuimris agad - means what?
Tha Gàidhlig aice - means what?
Tha sùilean dearg aig Gun Chleoc - means what?
Tha cluasan uaine aig Seonaidh - means what?
Tha taigh mòr aig Niall Beag - means what?
Tha càr luath aig Faoileag - means what?
And to finish (for now), "Bidh ceannard aig a h-uile sgoil an sin" can mean "Each school has a head teacher", when describing a "normal state of affairs".
Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 1:07 am
by akerbeltz
Tha sùilean dearg aig Gun Chleoc - means what?
Tha cluasan uaine aig Seonaidh - means what?
Means they have a dismembered body somewhere. Traditionally, a still attached body part requires air:
Tha sùilean dearga air GunChleoc
Tha cluasan uaine air Seonaidh
Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 6:54 am
by GunChleoc
A bheil thu a' ciallachadh mar sin:
Do you mean like that:
http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?t=43743
Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 2:15 pm
by akerbeltz
Aidh, sin agad e
Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 6:48 pm
by Seonaidh
Why Acker, why d'you think those ears went green?