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Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Now that we’ve covered “the”, let’s take a look at how you say “of the” in Gaelic. As you’d expect, this depends on the gender of the noun, either masculine or feminine but it’s useful knowledge to have as there are thousands of “of the” something or other in mountain names. So let’s take a look at how you say “of the”, or the genitive case of definite Gaelic nouns.

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Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Time for another Gaelic grammar lesson I think. This time, it’s on the word for “the”, as seen in a lot of mountain names in Scotland. As you know, Gaelic has two genders, masculine and feminine and the word for “the” takes a different form, depending on the gender of the word. “The” is the “definite article” and there is no word for the “indefinite article”, “a”, in Gaelic. So Beinn means “hill” or “a hill”. So let’s see how we say “the mountain”.

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