Bilingual transcription: It’s yourself

Bilingual transcription: Sin sib’ fhèin

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In English we usually emphasise words by stressing them but in Gaelic, we use special words or particles to do this.

Cuiridh sinn cuideam le faclan leithid

fhèin , self, no dòigh eile air a ràdh,

fhìn, fhèin no fhìn neo mar a chluinneas sibh agamsa tric aig toiseach a' phrògraim:

sin sib' fhèin , it's yourselves, sin sib' fhèin.

'S urrainn cuideam a chur le mìr, a particle or suffix at the end of a word, 's bidh sibh eòlach orra seo mar–thà:

mise , me, mise

you , thusa , thusa

iadsan , iadsan.

Le buadhaireansealbhach , possessive adjectives or articles, leithid mo agus do, faodaidh sinn na mìrean a chur ri deireadh an fhacail:

Feumaidh Anna / mo chuideachadh–sa ,Anne will have to help me, Feumaidh Anna mo chuideachadh–sa.

Agus eisimpleir eile dhen seo:

Feumaidh Anna ... do chuideachadh–sa , Anne will have to help you ,  do chuideachadh–sa .

And if you want to help her:

… a cuideachadh–se,   … a cuideachadh–se.