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More flats and houses are being built

Tha barrachd fhlataichean is thaighean gan togail

We also saw examples of sentences with gam , gad , ga , and with mo, do, a, a (h-) before a verbal noun throughout A2 and B1 .

Learners and speakers of Gaelic often go wrong between these two situations.

There are three situations where we use gam, gad, ga etc :

1. Where a pronoun is the object of the verbal noun:

A bheil	thu	gam	chreidsinn?	gam chreidsinn , *not* a' creidsinn mi
Are	you	at my	believing?	Do you believe me?
Chan eil	e	ga	dhèanamh.	ga dhèanamh, not a' dèanamh e
Isn't	he	at its	doing.	He isn't doing it.

2. Where there is a continuous passive meaning:

Tha	toglaichean ùra	gan	togail.
Are	new buildings	at their	building.	New buildings are being built.
Tha	iad	gan	togail
Are	they	at their	building	They are being built.

3. Where there is movement:

Tha	mi	a' dol	a	thogail	thaighean.
Am	I	going	to	building	of houses.	I am going to build houses.

Tha	mi	a' dol	gan	togail.
Am	I	going	at their	building.		I am going to build them.

Chaidh	mi		ga	fhaighinn.
Went	I		at its	getting.		I went to get it.

We saw these two examples in the introduction:

Bha taighean ùra gan togail an uair sin …

New houses were being built then …

Tha barrachd fhlataichean is thaighean gan togail.

More flats and houses are being built.