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CO-RIANACHADH GAELIG.
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Obs.—That the noun must be always placed before dcug or
dheug, and also before thar in compound numbers.
Riait. 8.—Cha ghabh da,
fichead, ceud, mile, muillion,
ainmear iomadh leo fein,
no co-naisgte ri cunntaich
eile ; mar.
Twenty shillings,_/?cAea<f tasdan
A thousand men, mile fear
Eighty cups, ceilhirfichead corn
Note 1—Though “ da" takes its noun in the singular, it takes
its adjective in the plural; as, “ Da iasg bheaya," two small fishes.
Rule 8.—I)d, fichead,
ceud, mile, muillion, alone or
combined with other numer¬
als, do not admit of plural
nouns ; as,
Two heads, dd cheann
A hundred cows, ceud bo
Sixty lambs, tri fichead uan
Note 2.—In describing mea¬
sure or extent, the word denot¬
ing dimension is followed by air;
as.
The house is ten feet high,
twelve feet broad, and forty feet
long.
Nod 2 ’An ainmeachadh
tomhais, cuirear air, an deigh
an fhocail a ta ag airis na meud;
mar,
Tha an tigh deich troighean air
airde, da throigh dheug air leud,
agus da fhichead troigh air fad.
Translate—Five pins; thirteen sheaves ; sixteen pounds ; the
eighth mile stone; the twenty-sixth chapter; forty herrings;
two wives; twelve otters; twenty-two salmons; two hundred
birds ; fifty-nine trees ; a thousand years; sixty days ; the field is
24 yards long, and 16 broad.
PRONOUNS.
Rule 9.—Personal and
possessive pronouns agree
in number, gender, and per¬
son, with their correlatives,
or the nouns for which they
stand ; as,
Jane made money, and she
put it in the bank.
James wrote three letters,
and he sent them to Edinburgh.
John hurt his foot.
Rule 10.—When a pro-
RIOCHDARAN.
Rialt. 9.'—Cordaidh Ri-
ochdaran pearsantail, agus
seilbheach, ’anaireimh, ’an
gin ’sam pearsa ri’n cho-
dhaimhearan, nona h-ainm-
earan a ta iad a’ riochdach-
adh; mar,
Rinn Sine airgid agus chuir i
anns a bhanc e.
Sgriobh Seumas tri litrichean
agus chuir e do Dbunedin iad.
Cbiiirr Iain a chas.
Rialt. 10. — ’Nuair a