Emphasis
Cuideam
In A1 we saw that we can use the emphasising particle to add emphasis, for example, with personal pronouns such as thu and thusa , and prepositional pronouns such as agam (at me, or my) and agamsa .
We can also do this with ainmearan (nouns):
| mo bheachd | mo bheachd‑ sa |
| my opinion | my opinion |
| a beachd | a beachd‑ se |
| her opinion | her opinion |
mo bheachd
my opinion
mo bheachd-sa
my opinion
a beachd
her opinion
a beachd-se
her opinion
| nam bheachd | ‑sa | nam bheachd‑sa | in my opinion |
| nad bheachd | ‑sa | nad bheachd‑sa | in your opinion |
| na bheachd | ‑san | na bheachd‑san | in his opinion |
| na beachd | ‑se | na beachd‑se | in her opinion |
| nar beachd | ‑ne | nar beachd‑ne | in our opinion |
| nur beachd | ‑se | nur beachd‑se | in your opinion (polite/plural) |
| nam beachd | ‑san | nam beachd‑san | in their opinion |
Nad bheachd-sa, a bheil thu a' dol a dhèanamh adhartas leis a' Ghàidhlig agad?
In your opinion, are you going to make progress with your Gaelic?
Nam bheachd-sa, tha e doirbh fhathast, ach tha mi a' faicinn beagan adhartais.
In my opinion, it's still difficult, but I am seeing progress.
Tha esan a' bruidhinn fada ro luath, nam bharail-sa.
He's speaking far too fast, in my opinion.
Usual practice is to write pronouns ( agamsa , for example) as one word , but to hyphenate after nouns .