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title: "Tha eagal orm bho am fiaclair! – Notes on Lesson 5"
date: 2014-11-18T07:31:48Z
Blog: ["Kilted Scot"]
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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!