Genitive Constructions
From Scottish Gaelic Grammar Wiki
- For a discussion of what Genitive Case is see Genitive Case (definition)
- For a discussion of how to form the Genitive Case in Scottish Gaelic see Genitive Formation
Contents
Uses of the Genitive Case in Scottish Gaelic
Possession
The object of a Verbal Noun
Syntactic Properties of Genitive Constructions in Scottish Gaelic
Alternatives to the Genitive Construction
The most common way to indicate possession in Gaelic does not use the Genitive construction. Instead the possessed item is marked with a definite article and is followed by the preposition aig followed by the possessor.
- Iain's house: An taigh aig Iain
- My house: An taigh agam
