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Grammatical Terms

Adjective
A word which describes a person or object (small, kind, green).

Article
The.

Compound preposition
A preposition of two or more words such as timcheall air, ri taobh, os cionn, mun cuairt air.

Direct object
The person or object which the verb directly affects.

  • The car hit the wall.
  • Katie loves baking.
  • The dog bit me.

Emphatic suffix
An ending which goes on verbs and nouns for emphasis.

I -sa
we -ne
you -sa
you (pl) -se
he -san
they -san
her -se

Genitive case
The form of the noun showing possession or connection (baga a’ bhalaich – the boy’s bag); also used following some prepositions (chun an dorais – to the door).

Impersonal or Passive statements
The action happens to the subject of the sentence.

  • James was hurt by the ball.
  • The house was painted.
  • The bins will be filled with paper.
  • The house would be painted.

Indefinite noun
A boy, a pen, girls.

Irregular verbs
Verbs which don’t follow the usual pattern for verbs.

Lenited
Has an h inserted after the first letter if possible.

Masculine, feminine
The grammatical gender of nouns.

Noun
A word which names a person or thing.

Possessive
My, your, his, her, our, their.

Plural
More than one (boys, the pens).

Preposition
A word expressing a relation to another word or element in a statement. eg on the table; to the man; around the village.

Prepositional (dative) case
The form of the noun following a simple preposition.

Pronoun
A word which replaces the actual name of a person or object.

  • I, you, he, she, it, we, they, us, them

Relative clause
A defining statement, introduced by a relative pronoun (who, which, whose etc), referring to the noun which comes before it (the girl who was at the back of the room). – with a preposition (the girl to whom I gave the book/the girl I gave the book to).

Simple preposition
A one-word preposition such as air, le, fo, do, ri, and also ann an which is an expansion of an.

Singular
Just one (the boy, a pen).

Verb
The action word in a sentence.

  • The car hit the wall.
  • Katie loves baking.
  • The dog bit me.

Verbal noun
Seeing, getting, drawing.

Adjective A word which describes a person or object (small, kind, green).
Article The.
Compound preposition A preposition of two or more words such as timcheall air, ri taobh, os cionn, mun cuairt air.
Definite noun The boy, the pen, the girls.
Direct object The person or object which the verb directly affects.
  • The car hit the wall.
  • Katie loves baking.
  • The dog bit me.
Emphatic suffix An ending which goes on verbs and nouns for emphasis.
I -sa
we -ne
you -sa
you (pl) -se
he -san
they -san
her -se
Genitive case The form of the noun showing possession or connection (baga a’ bhalaich – the boy’s bag); also used following some prepositions (chun an dorais – to the door).
Impersonal or Passive statements The action happens to the subject of the sentence.
  • James was hurt by the ball.
  • The house was painted.
  • The bins will be filled with paper.
  • The house would be painted.
Indefinite noun A boy, a pen, girls.
Irregular verbs Verbs which don’t follow the usual pattern for verbs.
Lenited Has an h inserted after the first letter if possible.
Masculine, feminine The grammatical gender of nouns.
Noun A word which names a person or thing.
Possessive My, your, his, her, our, their.
Plural More than one (boys, the pens).
Preposition A word expressing a relation to another word or element in a statement. eg on the table; to the man; around the village.
Prepositional (dative) case The form of the noun following a simple preposition.
Pronoun A word which replaces the actual name of a person or object.
  • I, you, he, she, it, we, they, us, them
Relative clause A defining statement, introduced by a relative pronoun (who, which, whose etc), referring to the noun which comes before it (the girl who was at the back of the room). – with a preposition (the girl to whom I gave the book/the girl I gave the book to).
Simple preposition A one-word preposition such as air, le, fo, do, ri, and also ann an which is an expansion of an.
Singular Just one (the boy, a pen).
Verb The action word in a sentence.
  • The car hit the wall.
  • Katie loves baking.
  • The dog bit me.
Verbal noun Seeing, getting, drawing.