Unit 22 - Growing plants and vegetables
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- Seònaid: Tha gàrradh brèagha agad.
- You have a beautiful garden.
- Iain: Tha. Tha e gu math brèagha an-dràsta.
- Yes. It is very beautiful just now.
- Seònaid: An toigh leat gàirnealaireachd?
- Do you like gardening?
- Iain: ’S toigh l’. As t-samhradh co-dhiù.
- Yes. In the summer anyway
- Seònaid: Dè bhios tu a’ dèanamh le na luibhean?
- What do you with the weeds
- Iain: Bidh mi gan spìonadh às!
- I pull them out!
- Seònaid: ’S e obair mhòr a tha sin.
- That’s a lot of work.
- Iain: Obair mhòr dha-rìribh. Ach feumaidh tu a dhèanamh.
- A lot of work indeed. But you must do it.
- Seònaid: Am bi thu a’ cur glasraich?
- Do you plant vegetables?
- Iain: Bithidh. Is toigh leam glasraich ithe.
- Yes. I like to eat vegetables.
- Seònaid: ’S toigh l’ is leamsa. Is toigh leam curranan gu h-àraidh.
- So do I. I like carrots particularly.
- Iain: A bheil gàrradh mòr agadsa?
- Do you have a big garden?
- Seònaid: Tha. Tha e mòr gu leòr.
- Yes. It’s big enough.
- Iain: Tha obair mhòr ann.
- It’s a lot of work.
- Seònaid: Obair mhòr dha-rìribh. Ach tha e a’ còrdadh rium.
- A lot of work indeed. But I enjoy it.
- Iain: Dè as fheàrr leat – glasraich no flùraichean?
- What do you prefer – vegetables or flowers?
- Seònaid: Is toigh leam an dà chuid.
- I like both.
- Iain: Tha na dìtheanan seo a’ coimhead brèagha, nach eil?
- These blooms look nice, don’t they?
- Seònaid: Tha, gu dearbh. Is toigh leam dìtheanan dearga.
- Yes, indeed. I like red blooms.
- Iain: An e càl a tha sin?
- Is that cabbage?
- Seònaid: ’S e. Tha càl a’ fàs gu math an seo.
- Yes. Cabbage grows well here.
- Iain: Ach tha luibhean eatarra.
- But they have weeds between.
- Seònaid: Tha. Tha mi dìreach a' dol gan spìonadh às.
- Yes. I am just going to pull them out
