bi aig/ have

clarsach · Unread post by **clarsach** » Mon May 18, 2009 7:42 pm

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.)

Unread post by **GunChleoc** » Mon May 18, 2009 8:36 pm

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

clarsach · Unread post by **clarsach** » Mon May 18, 2009 9:07 pm

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?

Unread post by **faoileag** » Mon May 18, 2009 11:45 pm

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.

clarsach · Unread post by **clarsach** » Tue May 19, 2009 3:44 am

Moran taing!

Unread post by **Níall Beag** » Tue May 19, 2009 10:06 pm

Isn't hair like a body part though? I thought you had hair on you... tha falt dubh oirre and all that....

Unread post by **GunChleoc** » Wed May 20, 2009 7:18 am

Yep, I think you're right

Maybe Sìne is wearing a wig

Seonaidh · Unread post by **Seonaidh** » Thu May 21, 2009 9:40 pm

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".

Unread post by **akerbeltz** » Fri May 22, 2009 1:07 am

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

Unread post by **GunChleoc** » Fri May 22, 2009 6:54 am

A bheil thu a' ciallachadh mar sin:

Do you mean like that:

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?t=43743

Unread post by **akerbeltz** » Fri May 22, 2009 2:15 pm

Aidh, sin agad e

Seonaidh · Unread post by **Seonaidh** » Sat May 23, 2009 6:48 pm

Why Acker, why d'you think those ears went green?

bi aig/ have

bi aig/ have

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