Unit 9 - Saying a bit about your family situation
A bheil clann agaibh? "Do you have children?"
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The language you pick up in this section should help you to answer simple enquiries about marital status and family situations which crop up in conversation. It uses the informal thu form of you because those speaking are of a similar age and are not being too formal. The first conversation deals with marital status and spouses' name, age etc. This is a revision of some material covered in earlier sections.
Listen to Iain and Rachel's conversation, you will hear the words for wife and children.
Counting people!
Before we move on to how to discuss children, we need to look at a special set of Gaelic numerals. These are used only in counting people, and only from two to ten. When we talk about numbers of people, we always use these words in preference to the standard numerals listed in Section 8.
- dithis
- two people
- triùir
- three people
- ceathrar
- four people
- còignear
- five people
- sianar
- six people
- seachdnar
- seven people
- ochdnar
- eight people
- naoinear
- nine people
- deichnear
- ten people
Listen to the above numerals being used as you follow the transcript of a chat between Helen and John.
