His and Hers in Scottish Gaelic
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- Опубликовано: 19 апр 2021
- It's easy to get 'his' and 'hers' mixed up in Scottish Gaelic. This video will make it all much clearer to you and give you little clues that can help you keep from mixing them up.
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It makes me so happy that someone is teaching my native language so well, I wish more people in Scotland spoke this beautiful language :)
Its shocking that there are wayyyy more Scottish and Irish descendants in places like Canada, for example, than French people, but french is the second language and Gaelic is all but wiped out!!
@@JohnSmith-zk8xp Especially considering Gaidhlic was the 3rd most spoken language in Canada for a long time. The government killed it, like it did indigenous languages. So sad!
I’m an American of Scottish Gaelic decent and unfortunately here there’s not a lot of ways to get connected with my Heritage especially since Covid-19. However I feel closer to my ancestors when I speak Gaelic.
So another big thank you to Jason for his wonderful videos helping me to learn the language of my forefathers.
@@Alasdair37448 no such thing as 'scottish gaelic' descent, thats a language, not a nationality
@@Bee-pb9nj excuse how did I become part of this? and scottish gaeilic could refer to the scots who invaded Pictland in the dark ages so get your history right before you go throwing around wild accusations
I’ve only Been watching him for 3 days and already know so much Gaelic
Whooo! Sgoinneil! 😁
Tapadh leat! This clears up the confusion I was having. Duolingo tends to leave it to the learner to figure out the language patterns and rules, which can be tough sometimes.
Excellent! I can understand that. The patterns can seem confusing until spelled out clearly. I'm happy to help with that. 🙂 Take care and I hope your week goes well.
I don’t understand how people learn anything on Duolingo. If my teacher taught by handing me a pile of tests I just feel rejected and give up.
Thank you so much for teaching Gaelic, and putting it on RUclips! I started with Duolingo about a year ago (and am so grateful it's one of their languages), but grammar is not that app's strong suit and I LOVE grammar. Tapadh leibh!
I've been learning for nearly four years and Jason is filling in all the gaps. This is the kind of teaching I really understand and I am very grateful
You enjoyed that transition to ‘his’ too much Jason😆😆😆
Hehe. Gaelic is *meant* to be enjoyed, Laura! 😎
I love your style of teaching! You are always so encouraging. Even though on your end you are just talking to a camera, know that I (and I'm sure many others) really feel that encouragement coming through to us, like it's directly aimed at us and that you are telling us personally we doing great even when it's confusing and overwhelming at times. I just took a too-long break from learning Gaelic and was putting off getting back into it because I was sure I would have forgotten everything, but your videos instantly made me feel better and inspired to keep going. Tapadh leibh!! On a different note: I find it interesting (annoying even) that the feminine nouns cause lenition on their adjectives but here the lenition is with the masculine!
Your chuckling about the switch made me laugh 🤣 I felt so validated not knowing what the difference was and that maybe I was missing something, but no they’re not “a” 😛
Great stuff, thank you! ✨. For some reason, for all it seems complicated compared to English, I'm really enjoying this system for denoting belonging. Maybe I like it *because* it's quite a departure from English; it's very interesting, and as you've said before, it gets one thinking in new ways.
Glad to see you back! Started learning in the past month and used your vids. Lovely to see new content.
Keep it up!
Plenty more where that came from, John! I'm happy you're here with us and I'm glad my videos are helping you grow your Gaelic. 🙂 Take care and stay safe!
@@GaelicwithJason best teacher on youtube bar none!
Just go with it... :-D You always make me smile (before I take a deep sigh and go with it) What would help me even more is to see these in sentences to see where they go in the sentence structure?
Glad to hear you're smiling, Nancy! 🙂 Are you looking for full sentences with these in them?
@@GaelicwithJason yes!! I stumbled across the translation of i. e. His house has a wall. AIGE comes at the very end? That is so backwards and confusing. Makes it hard for me to understand which belongs to whom. And, when aice as to oirre? Just go with it...
Great as always ! Tapadh leat ! from France ! concerning the neighbour it makes sens for me , we can talk and exchange thoughts and idea with them, it's a lot tricky to do so with our cat, even if I do that... I m not sure "she" really answers me... She "miaou" me back for sure, especially when she's hungry 🤣🤣
Tapadh leibh gu mòr on this explanation! It was driving me out of my gourd! 😄
Also, I don't know why this is the first time I've come across your channel. But I will be subscribing.
Slàinte mhath, ollaimh!
Tapadh leat for your wonderful videos! I am a member of the Scottish Gaelic Society of Victoria, here in Australia, and have been learning Scottish Gaelic (slowly) for the past few years. Thanks to Covid-19 we haven’t had in person classes for over 12 months and and your videos are helping me a lot.
I'm happy to be able to help you keep growing your Gaelic, Theresa. 🙂 That's tough to not have in person classes for so long. Hopefully, things will become safer soon and they'll start up again.
Keeping it simple...just the way I love it ! ♥️
Halò jason! I’ve been watching your videos for a little while now. They’re great!
Thought I caught a Maine winter reference! I live in the mid coast area on one of the islands! :)
Glad I found your videos...and nice The Locust shirt!
thank you so much for your you tube content. If can support you financially or purchase some materials for all your efforts? I feel great healing learning the language of my ancestors. Hearing the language and folk songs brings me a deep connection to the land. Born and raised in England but have both danish and scottish ancestry and really feel this connection.
Thank you Jason! the way you teach resonates with me. You could put it on CD'S
and sell them. I was taking Irish with Duolingo. The pronunciation was a mystery.
The letters don't have the same sounds as English always. So your technique is perfect
for my needs. Once again thank you.
You have revived my intrest in Galic.
It cracks me up when you laugh at the hard parts that are melting our brain cells .. usually... 🤣
@Gaelic with Jason
Sincerely appreciate your devotion to teach Gaelic. You do an awesome job for a very noble cause! If I wanted to reach out to you about hearing your story behind learning Gaelic, how could we get a hold of you?
Callum: A h-obair chan eill gu math.
Thomas: Carson a-beatha chan eill gu math?
Callum: Tha 'obair gu math? (About Henry, another subordinate)
Thomas: Tha gu math oir a-bheatha gu math.
Callum: Carson a-beatha chan eill?
Thomas: A-beatha chan eill oir Mary gle sgith. (Don't know she).
Callum: Carson Mary gle sgith?
Thomas: An cat aice chan eill.
Really really enjoy your lessons. At last my Gaelic is sinking in! Hopefully. Thankyou
Wonderful to hear, a charaid! May your Gaelic grow and grow, sinking in deeper and deeper. 🙂
My eyes have been opened!
Sgoinneil! 🙂
i love his teaching, its making gaelic easy for me to learn
Wonderful to hear, Christopher. I'm glad you're here! 🙂 Take care and enjoy your weekend.
Congratulations on doing this would love to learn someday and go to Scotland
Thank you, William. 🙂 Start whenever you can! Your trip to Scotland will be richer for knowing some Gaelic.
your welcome, ya someday, with my return to the home country haaha
What dialect are you speaking? I'm from Scotland, gaelic isn't my first language but from learning on duolingo and the one first laungage gaelic speaker I know, I've usually heard athair and màthair pronounced differently, similar but with a sort of th sound at the end? Maybe I'm just mishearing it I'm not sure
Anyways I also wanted to say thank you so much for all the help learning gaelic, you're an awesome teacher who is helping me and other Scots recalim the laungage of our forebears :)
I wish I had it explained like that in my first year.
I think neighbor might be part of the personal objects because of the clan system. The clan was considered one of the most important things to a Highlander. Two neighbors most likely lived on the same clans lands meaning they both belong to the same clan, and clan members were considered to be family. This is why I believe nàbaidh falls under the personal category.
Clans are from all of Scotland, not just the Highlands. They were seen in the same way throughout Scotland by highlanders, lowlanders and Central scots. I think maybe you said highlanders as traditionally people see gaelic as only a highland thing? Well historically that only really became properly true after laws were brought in to place to try purge scottish culture and try to anglicise the scots population, for instance in the 1600's gaelic was banned by law, and even further suppressed after the jacobite rebellion. It was only afterthe 1600's ban that Gàidhlig was pushed almost exclusively the west Highlands and Isles. This was also due to laws coming into place forcing certian 1st language galeic speaking clan members to be sent down to Edinburgh for their education, an education were only English and protestant values were taught, as most scots were Catholics so yeah Speaking Gàidhlig was punished, as was speaking the scots language
Before the 1600's Gàidhlig was actually spoken all across Scotland, with usually a population mix in each area of Gàidhlig speakers and Scots speakers, just some areas had a higher ratio of Gàidhlig speakers. Ofcourse it was probably most dense in the areas the Western Highlands, but I just wanted to clear up the misconception people tend to have that Gàidhlig was only ever spoken in the Highlands, Scots gaelic or Gàidhlig would have developed as a language across Scotland. All of Scotland being part of clans, each having tartans and all sharing a common identity and folklore. Yeah it various slightly regionally as with all places but scottish identity isn't really divided by lowlands and highlands, its more just a geographical thing than anything.
Personal im from central Scotland so I'm more or less in the middle inbetween the Highlands and lowlands :)
I don't know if most people realise this either, but nearly every native scot knows their clan and their family and clan tartan to this day :)
Two of the most famous Scots, William Wallace and Robert the Bruce were both lowlanders.
For weddings we still use our own clans tartan or family's tartan for our kilts
I enjoy your lessons very, very much!!!!!!!!!!!! Maybe the connecting "h" (a h-obair) makes pronouncing the two vowels more fluently --- without a glottal stop ("sospirando" in Italian).
the difference between a and aice, I believe is alienable vs inalienable possession, with a màthair, that will always be her mother, it can't be changed she possesses her mother inalienably, BUT, with a house or a cat, you could sell those things or have them stolen from you, those things are possessed, alienably.
Some other languages out there have this distinction, but I couldn't name one.
Agreed, Prof Racc. That makes sense to me. There are some examples that are more of a grey area yet still common: a h-obair (her work), a bracaist (her breakfast), a h-oifis (her office), etc. 🙂
I thought lenition happened mostly for feminine things? Why does this lenite when it refers to something masculine?
that is what i was thinking. i just solidified that lenition went with feminine nouns but now its with "his"?
Same! Lenition still throws me!
You're right, Mary Lou. Lenition happens after feminine things. It also happens after *a* when it means 'his'. They're two different times lenition pops up. 🙂
@9:55 he looked liked Kurt Cobain when he laughed.
How would you recommend describing things that are a bit more modern but still highly personal? Would something like a- sgioba ball-coise or a- fòn-làimh work or would should I say an sgioba ball-coise aige or an fòn-làimh aice?
Hmmm. Personally, I would use *an **____** aice/aige* for anything fairly mundane that isn't people, body parts, or anything going on inside oneself.
An sgioba ball-coise aice
am fòn-làimhe aige
etc
That being said, some Gaels use mo,do,a,a, etc for everything. To a degree, it seems like personal preference.
@@GaelicwithJason cheers for that!
So anything that is physically tied to the self without getting all metaphysical and so on to be kept "formal". Everything else aige/aice depending on whom I am speaking with.
Do you have a video where you teach the occurrences of lenition?
A video listing all the times one lenites, you mean? 🙂
@@GaelicwithJason tha
Not yet - at least, not all in one video. I've mentioned it a lot in other videos in this playlist. 🙂
There are lots of different situations that trigger lention and I'd worry about 3 things if they were all in one video: learners feeling overwhelmed, overthinking things, and potentially burning out. None of those are helpful in one's Gaelic journey!
All that said, I will point out when lenition happens in future videos like this one - just in more manageable amounts. 🙂
@@GaelicwithJason ok
It’s something I struggle with a bit sometimes, knowing the situations to use lenition. Is there a general rule to govern them?
Tapadh leat Jason. 'S fhada bho nach fhaca mi thu. Failte!
Good to hear you laugh tho!
After all these years, I still crack myself up sometimes. 😁
My husband and I were on an island off the west coast of Scotland last week. We noticed that the word for house was spelled without the letter a so Tigh. Does spelling differ from region to region?
Seems to me it would be easier to just have the vowels stop fighting...
If only they would get along...
🤣😂
To my ear, the pronounciation of,(aice)and (aige) are VERY similar. Is it just kind of more of dragging the C in your throat as opposed to a hard G in aige? Just learning here😊
aige has a sort of k sound, and aice a kind of aspiration aishke like
aice has that h sound in the middle but aige does not.
Just like Jerry and Margherita said. 🙂
Glè mhath, a thidsear! Tha mi a' smaoneachadh gu bheil a' tuigsinn. "Tha m' athair a' deaneamh taighean airson 'obair." Sin ceart, a Dheusain?
Sin ceart, a charaid. Is math sin. For 'building', I would go with *a' togail*. That's what native speakers use. 😎
@@GaelicwithJason a' togail? Right, I recall that one now.
Is the verb Aige different in male/female as you wrote Aige and Aice
I'm writing a novel and one of my main character is Scottish. I have her always referring to her loved ones in Gaelic. My editor wants me to have the pronunciation of the words for the reader. For grandmother (seanmhair) I have found three: shenn-her, shenuver, and shen-ver. Which is correct?
I've only heard it with the V sound in the middle, so I'd recommend something like "shen-uh-ver" since there are 3 syllables.
What's your novel about? 🙂
For ogha, it should have been ban-ogha. Granddaughter right?
@@ardnasmarie4330 If you want to be that specific, yes. Just using 'ogha' is fine too.
@@GaelicwithJason Thank you for your help, Jason. I appreciate it! I write horror/suspense genre. My book is called Disturbance In The Darkness: A Fated Encounter. It's on Amazon it you wanted to read the synopsis. It's currently not for sale though. I originally published it unedited at the dying request of my seanair.
I don't want to disrespect the language in anyway so could you tell me if the following pronunciations are correct?
màthair: maw-her
athair: ah-her
seanair: shen-er
seann-phàrantan: Unable to find
nighean: Unable to find
ban-ogha: Unable to find
bean: Unable to find
I've watched a few of your videos and have enjoyed. Who knows, by the time I'm done writing the trilogy, I might be fluent in Scottish Gaelic. Thank you for your help.
@@ardnasmarie4330 nighean - nee-an :)
This word can also mean lass, lassie, young girl.
Phrase for context mo nighean donn - my brown haired lass :)
A nighean a ghalagh - a galley maid
Hope this helped!
May I ask a question (to anyone)? I’m curious about people’s reasons for learning Scottish Gaelic. I’ve only been at it for a week but I’m learning with the goal of putting the skill on my CV (hoping to move to Scotland). I’m wondering if knowing this language is really valuable.
I live in Scotland, and I do think it's likely to be of some use. The preservation and recovery of the language seem to be being taken seriously and seeing success, and I don't see any reason that wouldn't continue. Someone else might have some stats on whether it could fairly be called a growth sector, but my impression is of increasing use.
To answer your question for myself, my prediction of increasing practicality is amongst my reasons. But I also like the idea of doing something to help with preservation of a marginalised language, and for me, geographic proximity makes it easier to see where the line is between that and appropriation.
Also, strangely, I've had mild speech problems my whole life, and practicing some Gaelic seems to really help my English! I don't know what's going on there, but I like it 😁.
In your position, I think I'd just see how I got on with it for a while. And if you don't find it worthwhile at the moment, you can always come back to it. Whatever you learn will stay in there somewhere; even after only a couple of weeks I'm sure you now have much more Gaelic than you did before! So if learning it suddenly becomes immediately relevant to your life and goals, you'll still have a headstart, even if it's been a while.
Oh yes, also, if you haven't already seen it, learngaelic.scot/whygaelic/index.jsp might be of some help. Either way, best of luck with your move ✨.
How do you tell the difference between "he/she" or "it" in a sentence? How do you know whether "Tha e goirid" is "He is short" or "It is short"? Or is this an ambiguity that is just left up to context?
Hi Roy. Great question! Yes, the context will give you clues. I would keep an eye on the overall topic of what's being discussed. 🙂
I am learning on an app and so far the difference between his and hers is “e” and “I”
Advise?
Sure. E and I are 'he' and 'she' - there's a slight difference between those and 'a' (his/hers). 🙂
On the topic of neighbor, why is it so close to enemy? Seems like a dangerous combo of words to sound so similar to each other. Gaelic does seem to like having opposites be near,y the same word quite often, though. Cheap and expensive come to mind…
Great class. In portuguese we have "seu" and "sua", both meaning "his" and" "her". The possessive pronoun, in portuguese, varies according to the thing possessed not to the possessor.
Obrigado, Roberto. 🙂 That's quite interesting about Portuguese. It makes sense to me.
@@GaelicwithJason, 😉
It seems like whether or not it's personal comes down to whether or not it'll still be the same once you're dead. My thoughts and mother won't exist in the same way, she won't be "my mother" afterwards, she'll just be a person. But my cat will be stay a cat. At least that makes sense according to these examples
Ah! So does this follows the same lentition pattern as with gam, nam, etc?
Yes! Here's a secret about the gam, nam, etc: They're all mo, do, a, a, etc but with a little extra:
nam = ann + mo
gam = aig + mo
na = ann + a
ga = aig + a
etc 🙂
So, the word that follows your gam, nam, ga, na, etc would follow the patterns for mo, do, a, a, etc - because they are those little possessives. Just with a little extra.
Does that help, a Shabrina?
@@GaelicwithJason yessss!!! Tapadh leat!!
Question: how can I convert from her to him this phrase "Dia, sgiath mo ghraàidh, mo chalman geal. glèidh I bho fhòirneart agus bho chron"? 🙏
I would change the i (her/she) to e (he/him): Glèidh *e* bho... 🙂
@@GaelicwithJason thank you so much for the help. 😁 Your videos are absolutely amazing. 😁👏
Hi Jason, thank you for your videos. You are so generous with what you put on your channel and I love watching!
This may be a daft question but what do you do if someone is gender neutral? I have a non-binary family member and they use 'they/ theirs' in English. Is there any way to approach this in Gaelic please?
Thank you 😊
Hello Lauren-Grace. Nice to see you. 🙂 It's my pleasure. I have plenty of more ideas for videos. If you're curious about something specific, just let me know and I'll add it to my list.
Gender neutrality has become an important part of the modern Gaelic community. Anyone should feel able to express themselves authentically. It seems that the pronoun ' iad' is being used by non-binary folk. Like this:
Tha iad a' fuireach ann an Alba. (They live in Scotland.)
Tha iad sgìth an-diugh. (They're tired today.)
Tha iad caran àrd. (They're somewhat tall.)
Tha iad a' leughadh an-dràsta. (They're reading just now.)
When talking about family or personal things, they would use 'an/am', like this:
am beatha = their life
am beachd = their opinion
am màthair = their mother
an athair = their father
am bràthair = their brother
am piuthar = their sister
an co-ogha = their cousin
Does that help? 🙂
@@GaelicwithJason Thank you so much for this!! Yes, it helps massively. Mòran taing!
Jason a bit confusing. If I say his brother do Ienite and say a bhathair and when saying his neighbor
Yes, when you're talking about 'his brother', it would be 'a bhràthair'. Nice job! 🙂 Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
So, when speaking about his, how does that work? As in "his professor is...": tha 'Ollaimh...
Couldn't that be really confusing, if you were to say tha Ollaimh, which would mean the professor is.
Isnt it said exactly the same way, the only way you could tell the difference was if it was written down? How would that work in a conversation?
Tapadh leat a tidsear!
'S e do bheatha, a Charole. 🙂
OK, so what do you do for context when you have both 'his' and 'hers' in one sentence? Or embroidered on towels...ha ha. Is the 'his' always understood first because that's convention as in 'his and hers' since we don't say 'hers and his' typically? Tapadh leat. And if your winters are anything like those here in Scotland, I hope your yurt has good insulation. Or you have a killer central stove...
I know i'm late to the party, however the difference between "personal" and "impersonal", to me feels more like "belonging together in a way" or "association" and "possession"?
Seo sgoinneil. Tapadh leit
aice and aige the same word???
Morning Barkley. 🙂Not quite, although they look quite similar. *aige* means 'he has' while *aice* means 'she has'.
@@GaelicwithJason thanks for the help. I should have gotten that by the title but is was not clear..still working hard and looking for another beginner to skype with to study...thanks again
Could I suggest/request a video overview of prepositional pronouns? :)
Sure thing; thanks for your suggestion. Any ones in particular? 🙂
@@GaelicwithJason Well the most often used ones I suppose. It's just something I have struggled to find a good overview of. :) thanks for the response :)
Glė maith a jhaeaso ò eireann deirdre uìnualláin