Difference between revisions of "Adverbs"
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| + | |align="left"|''air èiginn'' | ||
| + | |align="left"| 'with difficulty' | ||
| + | |align="left"| ''air chall'' | ||
| + | |align="left"| 'lost' | ||
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| + | |align="left"|''fa sgaoil'' | ||
| + | |align="left"| 'in dispersed fashion' | ||
| + | |align="left"| ''air seòl'' | ||
| + | |align="left"| 'sailing' | ||
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| + | |align="left"|''an làthair'' | ||
| + | |align="left"| 'present' | ||
| + | |align="left"| ''aur iteal'' | ||
| + | |align="left"| 'flying' | ||
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| + | |} (Lamb 2001) | ||
==Time Adverbs== | ==Time Adverbs== | ||
Revision as of 10:57, 10 September 2012
Adverbs in Gaelic can be formed by using the inflectional morpheme 'gu'. However, many Adverbs in Gaelic are non-inflected, and thus occur as fixed phrases.
Contents
Non-inflected Adverbs
Manner Adverbs
Adverbs with 'gu'
Largest Group, Adjvective + gu = adverb
Thuirt Seamus ris gu fuar say-PAST Seamus to him ADV cold 'Seamus said coldly.'
mor > gu mor
great/ large > greatly
can take intensifiers "gle" (very), and "ro"'extremely:
Largest Group, Adjvective + gu = adverb
Thuirt Seamus ris gu gle fuar say-PAST Seamus to him ADV very cold 'Seamus said very coldly.'
Ones Formed using Prepositions
| air èiginn | 'with difficulty' | air chall | 'lost' |
| fa sgaoil | 'in dispersed fashion' | air seòl | 'sailing' |
| an làthair | 'present' | aur iteal | 'flying' |
