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Ggn
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Username: Ggn
Post Number: 180
Registered: 08-2008
| | Posted on Friday, December 11, 2009 - 11:53 am: |   
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Would anyone have to know what the past tence free form of fosgail is in Scottish Gaelic?
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Lughaidh
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Username: Lughaidh
Post Number: 3304
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Friday, December 11, 2009 - 12:18 pm: |
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You mean "briathar saor" ?
then it's Dh'fhosgladh.
Learn Irish pronunciation here: http://loig.cheveau.ifrance.com/irish/irishsounds/irishsounds.html & http://fsii.gaeilge.org/
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Ggn
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Username: Ggn
Post Number: 181
Registered: 08-2008
| | Posted on Friday, December 11, 2009 - 12:38 pm: |
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What would the third person on the conditional be?
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Lughaidh
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Username: Lughaidh
Post Number: 3307
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Friday, December 11, 2009 - 03:57 pm: |
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It'd be both the 3d person of the conditional and the briathar saor... There's no difference in form in Scottish Gaelic.
In case it's not clear, Scottish Gaelic has several other ways to express the passive.
Learn Irish pronunciation here: http://loig.cheveau.ifrance.com/irish/irishsounds/irishsounds.html & http://fsii.gaeilge.org/
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| | Posted on Friday, December 11, 2009 - 04:35 pm: |
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Well, it;s an interesting question in Irish too. Those forms should be distinguished by lenition or its lack and h-prefixation or its lack, but real usage is more varied.
Autonomous form: do hosgaladh
Imperfect 3rd singular form: d'osgaladh
The pronunciation can help too. the top form in -g (hosgalag) and the bottom form in ch. (dosgalach) |
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Lughaidh
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Username: Lughaidh
Post Number: 3309
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, December 12, 2009 - 03:31 pm: |
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In Irish there is a distinction between pronouns too : sé as a subject, é as an object, while both are "e" in Scottish, so in Scottish "dh'fhosgladh" e means both "one opened it" and "he opened", while in Irish you'd have "foscladh é" and "d'fhosclóchadh sé" (Ulster)...
Learn Irish pronunciation here: http://loig.cheveau.ifrance.com/irish/irishsounds/irishsounds.html & http://fsii.gaeilge.org/
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