Unit 8 - Simple counting and reading the clock
Dè ’n uair a tha e? "What is the time?"
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The numbers between 11 and 20 are very straightforward in Gaelic in comparison with English which has irregular forms like "eleven" and "twelve". Deug is added to the appropriate numeral. In the case of twelve, it is dhà dheug, with the deug in its lenited form.
- aon deug
- eleven
- dhà dheug
- twelve
- trì deug
- thirteen
- ceithir deug
- fourteen
- còig deug
- fifteen
- sia deug
- sixteen
- seachd deug
- seventeen
- ochd deug
- eighteen
- naoi deug
- nineteen
- fichead
- twenty
