Where is your kettle?
Càit a bheil an coire agad?
Joy tells us how to say where things, or people, are in the home.
We have enough knowledge of household items and rooms to start talking about where things are located.
We have come across this question before AND we know how to answer it! Gasta!
We know how to ask the question but do we know how to answer it? We do! We learnt the principles of talking about where we live! Math dha-rìribh!
Use ann an for objects or places without the definite article .
Use ann am for place names without the definite article which begin with B,M, F or P.
Use ann an for nouns without the definite article which begin with any other letter.
We’ve learnt lots of countries which take the definite article An | A’.
What’s the difference between anns an and ann an?
The difference is anns ann means in the and ann an means in a.
Gaelic nouns take a gender. We are looking at masculine nouns here.
If the masculine noun begins with an s add the t- after anns.
The an changes to a’ and the noun lenites (or takes an h after the first letter) if it can lenite.
What is lenition?
Lenition means softening and it often means a change in the spelling of a word, by adding an ‘h’ after the first consonant.
What letters take lenition when you spell them?
B, C, D, F, G, M, P, S, T
What letters never lenite?
Vowels never lenite. The letters d , t and s don’t usually lenite if the word before them ends in an n , and words beginning with sg, sm, sp and st never lenite.
The an stays on its own in any other circumstance.
The fancy title for when a noun follows a preposition is the dative case (or the prepositional case) and when we use anns it is with the article .