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---title: "Tha eagal orm bho am fiaclair! – Notes on Lesson 5"date: 2014-11-18T07:31:48ZBlog: ["Kilted Scot"]category: - "Gàidhlig" - "Gaelic" - "notes" - "term1" - "week5"images: ["/images/IMAG0613_1-edited.jpg"]Type: ["article"]draft: false---Just for a matter of record, the title of this post _tha eagal orm bho am fiaclair!_ means (hopefully) I am afraid of the dentist!.. I’m not but growing up on Lewis my tutor was as the dentist in question was a mobile dentist and he liked a drink.. so the later in the day you got to him, the more tipples he would have had and the scarier the experience became! :)
This won’t be a sizeable post as the majority of what we covered in lesson 5 was directly related to time and is covered in the full lesson post but there were a few vocabulary and grammar points that I noted during the class.
The Gaelic word for ‘and’ is _agus_ as we all know, but once you start studying the language you’ll notice lots of abbreviations and in this case when you see _‘s_ in a sentence it is the shortened form for _agus_.
We’ve seen before when describing what we did that verbs, or more accurately verbal nouns, such as _ag’ ol_ (to drink) or _a’ sgrìobhadh_ (to write) are preceded by _ag’_ or _a’_ which unsurprisingly has an associated rule which thankfully in this case is very simple: if the verbal noun starts with a vowel you use _ag’_ and if it starts with a consonant you use _a’_.
Other than those few grammar points, we learned some more vocabulary:
| **Gàidhlig** | **English** || --- | --- || _air as .._ | back .. || _air as gu .._ | back to .. || _ag aontachadh le .._ | agreeing with/at one with .. || _crosda_ | bad(ly behaved) or cross || _bun sgoil_ | primary school || _ard sgoil_ | high school || _aig_ | at || _fiaclair_ | dentist || _tha eagal orm_ | i’m afraid || _tha eagal orm bho .._ | i’m afraid of .. |
That’s all folks, short and sweet this week. Even shorter and sweeter for the next two weeks as I missed those classes due to jury duty!
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