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A' dol am feabhas agus a' dol am miosad 

Improving and worsening

When things are getting better, we can use the phrase a’ dol am feabhas (going in betterness/getting better). If things are getting worse, we can use the phrase a’ dol am miosad (going in worseness). 

Am feabhas 

Improving

The forms feabhas and miosad are qualitative nouns which indicate ‘betterness’ or ‘worseness’. They are used with the preposition (ann) an, am before b, f, m, p. These forms are often used with the verb rach and have the same meaning as the sentences using a’ fàs that we saw earlier: 

Chaidh mo shlàinte am feabhas an–uiridh.

My health improved last year.

Thèid cùisean am miosad bho seo a–mach.

Things will get worse from here on.

We can also use the phrase a’ dol bhuaithe ‘declining’. This uses the simple preposition bho ‘from’, we saw in SpeakGaelic A2. 

bho + mi  bhuam 
bho + thu  bhuat 
bho + e  bhuaithe 
bho + i  bhuaipe 
bho + sinn  bhuainn 
bho + sibh  bhuaibh 
bho + iad  bhuapa 

Bha i air a dhol bhuaithe

She had declined

Tha e a’ dol bhuaithe

He is declining

Tha a shlàinte a’ dol bhuaithe

His health is declining

Chaidh cùisean bhuaithe

Things deteriorated

Thèid a h–uile rud bhuaithe

Everything will deteriorate