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This is my Scottish Gaelic thread. I'm trying to learn this beautiful (as beautiful as Irish Gaelic) language. I'll do some exercises Check this thread for the exercises that I'm doing.
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Sectori will be able to give you a definitive answer, but as I understand the rule, this is true when the noun is definite but not when it's indefinite. So:Aisling wrote:Does the object of the present progressive have to be in genitive (like in Irish)?
linguoboy wrote:Sectori will be able to give you a definitive answer, but as I understand the rule, this is true when the noun is definite but not when it's indefinite. So:Aisling wrote:Does the object of the present progressive have to be in genitive (like in Irish)?
Tha i a' fosgladh an dorais. "She's opening the door."
BUT: Tha i a' fosglad doras. "She's opening a door."
Compare this to (Standard) Irish:
Tá sí ag oscailt an dorais.
Tá sí ag oscailt dorais. (BUT: Tá sí ag oscailt doras éalaithe. "She's opening an emergency door.")
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