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Bilingual transcription: Thàinig orm …

Bilingual transcription: I had to …

Watch this clip where Joy gives us some of her useful tips and favourite phrases.

JOY

Now what about expressing that we needed or had to? To do this, we use the phrase

Thàinig orm, I had to or I was compelled to,

Thàinig orm/sin a dhèanamh. I had to do that. Thàinig orm sin a dhèanamh.

I covered quite a few verbs there, combined with prepositions and prepositional pronouns! The best way to learn these is to take the time to see how they fit together and then learn them as a phrase, perhaps just one or two at a time.