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Fuirich

Wait, Stay and Live

The verb fuirich means ‘stay’ or ‘wait’, and just as in Scottish English, ‘Where are you staying?’, ‘Where do you stay?’, we use this in Gaelic to say where we are ‘living’: Càit a bheil thu a’ fuireach?  

We saw the the conditional tense used earlier, and here you can see it in full: 

Càit am fuiricheadh tu?

Where would you stay?

Dh’fhuirichinn ann an …

I would stay in …

Chan fhuirichinn thall thairis idir.

I wouldn’t stay abroad at all.

Fuirich! | a’ fuireach

Stay! | staying 

CONDITIONAL | HABITUAL PAST 

Am fuiricheadh?

Would stay?

Nach fuiricheadh?

Wouldn’t stay?

Dh’fhuiricheadh

Would stay

Chan fhuiricheadh

Wouldn’t stay

… gum fuiricheadh

… that would stay

… nach fuiricheadh

… that wouldn’t stay

+ MI 

Am fuirichinn?

Would I stay?

Nach fuirichinn?

Wouldn’t I stay?

Dh’fhuirichinn

I would stay

Chan fhuirichinn

I wouldn’t stay

+ SINN 

Am fuiricheamaid?

Would we stay?

Nach fuiricheamaid?

Wouldn’t we stay?

Dh’fhuiricheamaid

We would stay

Chan fhuiricheamaid

We wouldn’t stay