Unit 3 - Explaining where you live and where you belong to
Cò às a tha sibh? "Where are you from?"
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As soon as you have made a basic introduction, a fluent Gaelic speaker will almost certainly ask you where you come from. This unit will help you to understand and respond to such a question.
Two new words appear for the first time in this section, cò and às.
Here’s what they mean separately:
- cò?
- who, which?
i.e. cò e? - "who is he?"
- às
- from, out of
às also appears in conversation in the form à
- Tha mi à Glaschu.
- I am from Glasgow.
- Tha mi às na Stàitean Aonaichte.
- I am from the United States.
Put together as cò às? they mean "where from?"
- Cò às a tha sibh?
- where are you from?
This does not mean where you now live, but your place of birth.
Listen to examples of people explaining where they are from using either sibh or thu for you.
