Twenties and Beyond
Counting beyond the twenties in Gaelic is lots of fun! If you love math! Although a decimal system has been introduced, the traditional counting method is based on twenties: ten and twenty, two twenties, two twenties and ten.
I’m leaving out English translations today, as they are all in the previous lessons on counting.
- a deich air fhichead
- a h-aon dheug air fhichead
- dà dheug air fhichead
- a trì deug air fhichead
- a ceithir deug air fhichead
- etc
Remember that when you use the numbers with nouns, the a comes off the front.
And for forty. From forty onward, numbers are the same with or without nouns.
- dà fhichead
- dà fhichead ’s a haon
- dà fhichead ’s a dhà
- dà fhichead ’s a trì
- dà fhichead ’s a ceithir
- etc
The fifties:
- dà fhichead ’s a deich
- dà fhichead ’s a haon dheug
- dà fhichead ’s a dhà dheug
- dà fhichead ’s a trì deug
- dà fhichead ’s a ceithir deug
- etc
Note: These numbers are taken from this site, and uses the full word, is (another word for and), while many books and sites will use the shortened form I give above, ‘s.
Today’s listening, something a little different. This link should take you to a children’s book. Use the arrows in the lefthand column to turn the page.
