Types of communities
Seòrsaichean choimhearsnachdan
Let's take a quick look again here at the verb ’s e , which we have seen many times in this course so far.
We learned about this structure at the very beginning of the course we saw in A1 Cuspair 5 that the gender and number of the noun and the prepositional pronoun should agree, mostly.
Translate these sentences into Gaelic using 'S e | An e | Chan e :
| English | Gaelic |
|---|---|
| It's a friendly community. | |
| Is it a beautiful big building? | |
| They aren't kind people |
It can be seen that we use innte when we are talking about a feminine noun, with a masculine noun we use ann , and with plural nouns, we use annta :
But there is a situation where it's correct to say ann with feminine or plural nouns.
Chithear an seo gun do chleachdadh ann leis an fhacal eaglais , ged is e facal boireann a tha sin.
Anns an t-suidheachadh seo, thathar a' freagairt na ceiste: Dè th' ann?