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Bilingual transcription: Bhiodh daoine a’ dol dhan Eilean

Bilingual transcription: People would go to the island

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We looked back, using the conditional tense to express the habitual past, bhiodh, people would go to the island:

Bhiodh daoine/a’ dol dhan EileanBhiodh daoine

a’ dol dhan Eilean.

To ask a question, you’d use: Am biodh …? For instance, Did everyone speak Gaelic?

Am biodh a h–uile duine/a’ bruidhinn Gàidhlig? Am biodh a h–uile duine a’ bruidhinn Gàidhlig?

And the negative form of bhiodh, cha bhiodh:

They wouldn’t live there all year:

Cha bhiodh iad/a’ fuireach/fad na bliadhnacha bhiodh iad a’ fuireach fad na bliadhna.

For emphasis we used B’ e …, it was … It was English that the gentry spoke:

B’ e Beurla/a bhiodh aig na h–uaislean, b’ e Beurla a bhiodh aig na h–uaislean.And its negative form, Cha b’ e …That wasn’t important, Cha b’ e sin/a bha cudromach, cha b’ e sin a bha cudromach.