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Siubhal agus shiùbhladh

Travel and would travel

We saw an tràth cumhach (the conditional tense) with gnìomhairean riaghailteach (regular verbs) in B1 Cuspair 5. In this tense, the verb lenites where possible and the ending adds –adh or –eadh at the end. If the verb starts with fuaimreag (a vowel), or f + fuaimreag, we have to place dh’ at the front:

tog → thogadh

imrich → dh’imricheadh

ceannaich → cheannaicheadh

fuirich → dh’fhuiricheadh

Sometimes the verb changes a little, a’ teannachadh (contracting) in the middle. We saw that bruidhinn does this in the future tense: bruidhnidh instead of bruidhinnidh.

The verb siubhail changes a little, as you can see in the table.

SIUBHAIL! | A’ SIUBHAL

TRAVEL! | TRAVELLING

An siùbhladh?

Would travel?

Nach siùbhladh?

Wouldn’t travel?

Shiùbhladh

Would travel

Cha shiùbhladh

Wouldn’t travel

Shiùbhlainn

I would travel

Shiùbhlamaid

We would travel

If you were travelling all over the world, who would travel with you? What if you were travelling leat fhèin (with yourself) or (on your own).

leam fhèin

alone [lit. with myself]

nam aonar

alone [lit. in my one]

But we have to use another roimhear fillte (compound preposition) to say ‘without me, you, him, her, us, you [plural], them’.