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The Periphrastic Plup. may with this construction be used
in expressing a wish :
! nach robh mi riamh air t' fhàgail ! —
Oh ! that I had never left thee /— L.C. 20
2. with Possessive Pronoun and Verbal Noun :
Na'n tigeadh iad chum na cuirme, cha rachadh an cur air
falbh — // they had come to the feast, they would not have
been sent away : — Cos. 150
3. with Inf. Passive :
Cha robh duine nach robh air a chorra-biod a chluinntinn
an deach blàr a thoirt — There was not a man but was on
tip-toe to hear whether a battle had been fought : — MacC. 62
§ 173. Perf. and Plup. Subjunctive.
The Conditional, expressing a Perfective sense, may affirm or
deny — (1) a fact, or (2) a supposition :
(1) Protasis, Ipf. Subj. ; Apodosis, Perf. Indie. §145, 5.
Mur deanamaid feum le'r casan,
Cha tug sinne srad le'r musgan —
Had we not made use of otir feet,
We had never fired our guns : — D. Ban 2, 7
Na'm biodh agad armuinn Mhuile,
Thug thu air na dh' fhalbh dhiubh fuireach —
If you had had the heroes of Mull with you,
You had compelled those that fled to stay : — S.O. 42^2
Mur biomaid treun, cha robh sinn beò —
Were we not brave, we had not been alive ; — C.S.
Ged chuirinn mile bhadhna seach . . .
Cha d' imich seach de'n t-siorruidheachd mhòir
Ach mar gu'n tòisicheadh i 'n de —
Though I had put past a thousand years,
There had not gone by of the great eternity
Save as much as if it had begun yesterday : — La Bhr. 409, 11,12
Gus am b' fhearr leat na ni nach abair thu gu'n do ghabh e
seachad air an taobh eile —
Till you would prefer to anything you can say that he had
passed by on the other side : — Am Fear-Ciùil 226