Adverbs
From Scottish Gaelic Grammar Wiki
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.
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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' |
