Scottish Gaelic in Twelve Weeks

Introduction

1.1 — Pronouns

1.2 — The verb ‘tha’ to be

1.3 — Indefinite nouns

1.3a — ‘There is/are’

1.4 — ‘To have’

1.4a — Prepositional pronouns

1.4b — ‘To know’

1.5 — Negative and interrogative forms of ‘tha’

1.6 — Answering questions

1.7 — ‘I have only’

1.8 — Adverbs

1.8a — ‘How are you’

Conversation

2.9 — Emphatic pronouns

2.9a — ‘Who are you?’

2.10 — The verb ‘is’ (‘to be’)

2.10b — Negative and interrogative forms of ‘is’

2.11 — Gender

2.12 — The pronouns ‘fear’ and ‘tè’

2.14 — Definite article (‘the’)

2.14a — Use of article

2.15 — Possessive constructions

2.16 — Position and status of adjectives

Conversation

3.17 — Verbal nouns

3.18 — The present tense

3.19 — ‘What do you want?’ etc.

3.22a — ‘Càite a bheil … ?’ (‘Where is … ?’)

3.25 — Days, months and seasons

3.26 — Emphatic suffixes

Conversation

4.27 — Past tense of ‘tha’

4.27a — Independent and dependent verbal forms

4.27b — Past tense of ‘tha’ with verbal noun

4.28 — Irregular verbs: simple past tense

4.29 — Answering questions (past tense)

4.30 — Imperative

4.30a — Negative imperative

4.30b — Other imperative forms

4.31 — Past tense of ‘is’

4.31a — Idioms with ‘is’

4.32 — Prepositional pronouns: ‘do’ (‘to, for’)

4.32a — Idioms involving ‘do’

4.33 — Vocative (or address form)

4.34 — The reflective pronoun ‘fhèin’ (‘self’)

4.34a — Adverbial use of ‘fhèin’

Conversation

5.35 — Preposition ‘ann an’ (‘in’)

5.35a — Idiomatic use of ‘ann an’ (‘in’)

5.36a — Negative and question forms (interrogative) of ‘is e’

5.36b — Using ‘tha’ instead of ‘is’

5.36c — ‘It is …’

5.37 — Past tense

5.38 — ‘This is’, ‘that is’

5.39 — Asking ‘What is … ?’

5.40 — Word order: fronting

5.41 — Answering questions

5.42 — Ownership

5.42a — ‘Who owns?’

5.42b — Prepositional pronoun ‘le’ (‘with’)

5.42c — Idioms involving ‘le’

5.43 — The weather

5.44 — Prepositions

5.45 — Prepositional pronoun ‘air’ (‘on’)

Conversation

6.46 — The prepositional (P) case

6.46a — Irregular nouns

6.46b — Prepositions and possessive pronouns

6.47 — Prepositions followed by the nominative

6.48 — The past tense of regular verbs: independent forms

6.49 — Prepositional pronouns ‘ri’ (‘to,’ etc.), ‘do’ (‘to, for’)

6.50 — Verbs and prepositions

6.51 — Regular past tense: dependent forms

6.51a — ‘Never’, ‘ever’

6.51b — ‘Only’

6.52 — Independent and dependent verbal particles

6.53 — ‘Who?’ v. ‘who’, ‘when?’ v. ‘when’, ‘where?’ v. ‘where’, ‘what?’ v. ‘what’, ‘how?’ v. ‘how’

6.54 — Time

6.54a — Other times of the year

6.54b — ‘Last’, ‘next’

6.55 — ‘Some’

6.55a — ‘Feadhainn’ (‘some people/things’)

6.56 — ‘Every’

Conversation

7.57 — The genitive case

7.57a — Forming the genitive case

7.58 — Double definite article

7.58a — Genitive of irregular nouns

7.59 — Surnames

7.60 — Adverbs of quantity

7.61 — The verbal noun and the genitive case

7.62 — Composite prepositions

7.62a — Prepositions followed by the genitive

7.63 — More on time

Conversation

8.64 — ‘Tha’: future

8.64a — Regular verbs: future

8.67a — ‘Because’, ‘since’

8.68 — Thee nominative plural

8.68c — The indefinite genitive plural

8.69 — Prepositions before the article

8.70 — Irregular nouns: plural

8.71 — Numerals with nouns

8.71a — Dual number

8.72 — Verbal nouns with pronoun objects

8.73 — ‘Duine’ (‘man’, ‘husband’, ‘person’)

Conversation

9.74 — Irregular verbs: future

9.75 — Answering questions

9.78 — Negative relative clauses

9.79 — Interrogatives involving prepositions

9.81 — Adjectives: singular (nominative, prepositional, genitive)

9.82 — More on numerals (20–99)

9.84 — Countries

Conversation

10.85 — Regular verbs: conditional/past habitual: independent forms

10.85b — ‘Tha’: conditional/past habitual

10.85c — Answering questions

10.88 — ‘If’ meaning ‘whether’

10. 89 — Adjectives: equitive, comparative and superlative

10.90 — Irregular adjectives: comparative and superlative

10.93 — Personal numerals

Conversation

11.94 — Modal verbs ‘feum’ and ‘food’

11.95a — Indirect objects of infinitives

11.95c — Inversion

11.97 — ‘A bhith’ (‘to be’)

11.98 — The perfect

11.98d — The immediate perfect

11.100a — Colours

11.101 — Ordinal numbers

Conversation

12.102 — Irregular verbs: conditional/past habitual

12.102a — Answering questions

12.104 — ‘Used to’ (‘b’ àbhaist do’)

12.105 — Past participles and the perfective

12.106 — The passive

12.107 — Impersonal verbal forms

12.109 — Passive construction ‘tha … ag …’ (‘is being’)

12.111 — Defective verbs

12.112 — Interjections

12.113 — Remaining prepositional pronouns

Conversation

Appendix 2: Prepositions and prepositional pronouns

Appendix 4: Nasalisation (eclipsis)

Appendix 6: Grave and acute accents

Iolaire Loch Trèig (The Eagle of Loch Trèig)

Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair agus Donnchadh Bàn Mac an t‐Saoir: dithis(t) bhàrd ainmeil (Alexander MacDonald (c 1695–1770) and Duncan Ban MacIntyre (c 1724–1812): two famous bards)

Donnchadh Bàn agus ‘Moladh Beinn Dòbhrain’ (Duncan Ban and ‘The Praise of Ben Doran’)

Foghlam anns a’ Ghàidhlig (Education in Gaelic)