Your father? Your mother?
D' athair? Do mhàthair?
In A1 Cuspair 4 of SpeakGaelic we learnt about the possessive adjectives. These are:
| mo / m' (before vowels) | my |
| do / d' (before vowels) | your (singular) |
| a | his |
| a/a h (before vowels) | her |
| ar / ar n- (before vowels) | our |
| ur/bhur or ur n-/bhur n (before vowels) | your (polite/formal/plural) |
| an/am (before b, f, m, p ) | their |
mo , (my) do (your) and a (his), lenite the following noun, where possible, meaning a change in the spelling of a word, by adding an ‘h’ after the first consonant for the following letters:
b, c, d, f, g, h, m, p, s, t
And what doesn't lenite?
- Vowels
- The letters d , t and s don’t usually lenite if the word before them ends in an n
- words beginning with sg , sm , sp and st never lenite.
In the conversation Mairead mentioned mo (my) and do (your) and also d' (your).
You can perhaps see better how it all fits together by playing with the questions and responses below.
A bheil
Does
mo mhàthair
my mother
do mhàthair
your mother
a mhàthair
his mother
a màthair
her mother
ar màthair
our mother
ur màthair
your mother
am màthair
their mother
a' fuireach ann am Pàrtaig fhathast?
still living in Paisley?