https://jon.kelbie.scot/tag/week4/ Recent content in Week4 on Jon Kelbie | My Site | jon.kelbie.scot Hugo -- gohugo.io en Thu, 23 Oct 2014 07:31:48 +0000 https://jon.kelbie.scot/article/leabhar-latha-homework-for-lesson-4/ Whilst there will be no notes for last week’s class (due to me being absent) the tutor was kind enough to send me the homework task. So this week I have to keep a diary in Gaelic for a week with at least two sentences in past tense. Here goes! Hold on to your hats! With my beginner’s knowledge of Gaelic and my insomnia-ridden, work-driven dull week this promises to be a roller-coaster of a journey. Most likely a roller-coaster which is closed for maintenance. Leabhar-latha (diary) Diardaoin Bha mi ag obair gu trang aig an taigh. Bha mi a’sgriobhadh am blog mu a’ Iapan. Chan robh mi anns an sgoil-Gàidhlig ‘san amnoch. Bha mi glè sgìth! I worked hard from home. I wrote a blog post about Japan. I didn’t go to my Gaelic class in the evening. I was VERY tired. Dihaoine Bha mi ag obair aig an taigh. Bha mi a’ sgrìobhadh am blog a’ Gàidhlig. I worked from home. I wrote a Gaelic blog post. Disathurna Bha mi a’ snàmh anns a’ mhadainn. Bha mi anns an taigh-bìdh seapanais feasgar. Bha dinneir agus leanntan glè bhlasta. Bha mi toilichte. I went swimming in the morning. In the evening I went to a Japanese restaurant. Dinner and beers were delicious. I was happy. Là na Sàbaid Bha mi a’ ceannach. Cheannaich mi bolgain (no bolganan), càl, feòil agus uinneanan. Bha mi ag obraich air làrach-lìn feasgar. I went shopping. I bought lighbulbs (or (alternative plural) lightbulbs, cabbage, meat and onions. I worked on a website in the evening. Diluain Bha mi ag obair aig an taigh (Tha mi obraich air do cheann fhéin). Chan robh mi cadal. Bha mi glè sgìth! I worked from home (I am self-employed). I didn’t sleep. I was very tired. Dimàirt Bha mi ag obair aig an taigh o leth uair as dèidh ceithir anns a’ mhadainn. Bha mi seachd sgìth. I worked from home from half past four in the morning. I was extremely tired. Diciadain Cha robh mi ag obair. Bha mi a’ snàmh anns a’ mhadainn. I wasn’t working. I went swimming in the morning. There we go, as promised all of the excitement of a completely immobile roller coaster. (https://jon.kelbie.scot/article/leabhar-latha-homework-for-lesson-4/) Thu, 23 Oct 2014 07:31:48 +0000 https://jon.kelbie.scot/article/leabhar-latha-homework-for-lesson-4/ https://jon.kelbie.scot/article/de-an-uair-a-tha-e-lesson-4/ Unfortunately, I missed this week’s Gaelic class so this post will be a little shorter than the previous weeks’ efforts. Nevertheless my tutor advised that “We did lots of revision on past and future tense…and started ‘the time’!”, so that’s what we are going to do! An Uair – The Time As well as the two A4 sides of class notes, I’l refer to Scottish Gaelic in Twelve Weeks to pad things out a little bit. To ask what time it is you say dè an uair a tha e? where e has previously been used as the personal pronoun ‘he’ in this case it refers to ‘it’, I suspect that will not always be the case in this devious language and that i will be used in the case of feminine nouns. We shall see. To say ‘it is ..’ therefore is simply ‘tha e ..‘ followed by one of the following: Gàidhlig English uair one o’clock dà uair two o’clock trì uairean three o’clock ceithir uairean four o’clock còig uairean five o’clock sia uairean six o’clock seachd uairean seven o’clock ochd uairean eight o’clock naoi uairean nine o’clock dech uairean ten o’clock aon uair deug eleven o’clock dà uair dheug twelve o’clock Note that aon (one) isn’t used for one o’clock but is for eleven o’clock, apparently in Cape Breton Gaelic it can be used in the former case. Also 3-10 o’clock uses the plural form of uair which is uairean and also though I’m not sure why deug from eleven o’clock is lenited to become dheug in twelve o’clock. Just like in English the time clause can be modified to include further information such as in the morning, half past etc. Useful vocabulary: Gàidhlig English leth-uair half an hour cairteal quarter an dèidh after/past ‘sa mhadainn in the morning ‘san oidhche at night feasgar (in the) evening Examples: Gàidhlig English tha e leth-uair as dèidh sia it is half past six tha e aon uair deug anns a’ mhadainn it is eleven o’clock in the morning aig cairteal gu còic feasgar at quarter to five in the evening Note that when quarter/half past/to are used the word for o’clock is dropped, just like in English. At this stage I’m unsure how the time would be modified by say 5 minutes or 23 minutes etc. More examples of how to say time in Gaelic (as well as all of the Celtic languages) can be found on this Omniglot page . A`cunntadh – Counting Other than time and revision on tenses, I’m not sure what else was covered in class but let’s have a look at numbers. We’ve previously looked at 1-10 and 11-19.. so let’s look at 20+. Gàidhlig English fichead twenty fichead `s a h-aon twenty one fichead ‘s a dhà twenty two fichead ‘s a trì twenty three fichead ‘s a deich thirty fichead ‘s a h-aon deug thirty one fichead ‘s a dhà dheug thirty two dà fichead forty dà fichead ‘s a h-aon forty one dà fichead ‘s a deich fifty Interesting, no? So numbers are counted in sets of twenty, and that set of twenty is in itself modified to bring the next set, which means in order to even say the correct number you need to be reasonably numerate. Deug translates into ‘teen’ and it seems like it is always lenited when following dhà (two). Also aon is lenited from twenty-one upwards apparently. I would suspect due to their non-inclusion in the list that numbers 3-9 are never lenited. Finally, as always we have the weekly song, Màiri Ruadh A’dannsa an Nochd by Arthur Cormack. The title translates to Red-haired Mairi will be dancing tonight. It’s quite upbeat but there is only one version on youtube to share here and the accoustics aren’t great, sorry! (https://jon.kelbie.scot/article/de-an-uair-a-tha-e-lesson-4/) Sun, 19 Oct 2014 07:09:19 +0000 https://jon.kelbie.scot/article/de-an-uair-a-tha-e-lesson-4/