Hew Morrison Collection > Gaelic texts for schools (new code)

(1.) Tell whether Proper, Common, or Abstract
Nouns.
(2.) Tell the Number and the Gender separately.
(3.) Translate each word into English, and give
Number and Gender at once.
Bard, cluasan, cro, dorsa, sliochd, reulta, Toma.s
neul, leabhraiche, meud, clarsaichean, clin, tobraiche,
sloigh, Duneidean, ba, saibhlean, lagh, sleibhte, caora,
cu, tim, feidh, daimh, muc, Ion, Ion, Mairi, iasg,
laithean, dan, brog, cuirn, clann, clachan, fras,
preasan, seol, deur, lin, guth, gaithean, lasraichean,
barail, iall.
Exercise IX.
Translate into Gaelic, and write correctly —
A harp, an ear, doors, stars, a star, clouds, a sheep-
fold, a book, books, bulk, sheep, a well, a cow, a moor^
a barn, a day, dogs, voices, swine, an ox, a deer,
marshes, a fish, poems, a bush, shoes, showers, thongs,
darts, beams {of light), a flame, tears, times, a net.
opinions, greed.
The Nominative is the form that goes with
the Verb, and is the Subject in a Sentence. It
is exactly of equal value with the Nominative in
English. The Nominative form can always be
determined by putting the Verb tha before the