{"id":3724,"date":"2023-03-14T15:38:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T15:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/roinnnancanan\/?p=3724"},"modified":"2026-09-23T23:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T23:08:17","slug":"3724","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/roinnnancanan\/archives\/3724","title":{"rendered":"In Gaelic all nouns (things) are either masculine or feminine &#8211; even a pencil or a window!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you use an<em> adjective to describe a noun, the adjective usually comes after the noun.<\/em><br \/>\nRemember:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/16A6WhdaGPgDpFaYB7Z4mNjSgvSoJDaal\/preview\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen ><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #ff9900\">Madainn mhath!<\/span> Good morning!<\/h1>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1sOnS-6qjnl4uCPt6hjlWyUFRsZK9WkLR\/preview\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen ><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #339966\">Feasgar math!<\/span> Good afternoon!<\/h1>\n<p>If the noun is<em> feminine,<\/em> the sound and spelling of the adjective can change.<br \/>\nMar eisimpleir:<br \/>\nMasculine nouns:<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #00ccff\">Calum beag <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #00ccff\">little Calum<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #00ccff\">geansaidh m\u00f2r <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #00ccff\">a big jumper<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Feminine nouns:<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff99cc\">Anna bheag <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff99cc\">little Anna<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff99cc\">l\u00e8ine mh\u00f2r <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff99cc\">a big shirt<\/span><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Colours are adjectives too and therefore, the same rules apply. Mar eisimpleir:<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff99cc\"><span style=\"color: #00ccff\">geansaidh<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">dearg<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #00ccff\">a<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">red<\/span> <span style=\"color: #00ccff\">jumper<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff99cc\"> l\u00e8ine <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">dhearg<\/span><br \/>\na <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">red<\/span> shirt<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Therefore, we can tell that the word <span style=\"color: #ff99cc\"><em>l\u00e8ine<\/em> is <em>feminine<\/em><\/span> and that <span style=\"color: #00ccff\"><strong>geansaidh<\/strong> is <strong>masculine<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you use an adjective to describe a noun, the adjective usually comes after the noun. Remember: Madainn mhath! Good morning! Feasgar math! Good afternoon! If the noun is feminine, the sound and spelling of the adjective can change. Mar eisimpleir: Masculine nouns: Calum beag little Calum geansaidh m\u00f2r a big jumper Feminine nouns: Anna &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/roinnnancanan\/archives\/3724\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In Gaelic all nouns (things) are either masculine or feminine &#8211; even a pencil or a window!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ceum-canain-language-steps","eportfolio_category-none"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/roinnnancanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/roinnnancanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/roinnnancanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/roinnnancanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/roinnnancanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3724"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/roinnnancanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4299,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/roinnnancanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724\/revisions\/4299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/roinnnancanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/roinnnancanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/roinnnancanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}