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The Zero to Gaelic Master Index

3nd edition

by Ted Brian Neveln, Slighe nan Gaidheal

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Students of Gaelic use different textbooks and this table makes it easier to find similar topics from different books, especially since most of them do not have good indexes. Rows are sorted to match the Zero to Gaelic curriculum. Roman numerals stand for volume numbers in multi-volume works. Different books may use different terms for the same thing and this table tries to reconcile them while respecting the individual choices of the authors. A blank box may mean that the topic does not fit here easily or that I simply missed it. This table does not cover all the materials in these books, and many have special virtues not mentioned here. Scottish Gaelic in 12 Weeks has its own excellent index but is here because it is the textbook of Zero to Gaelic. Suggestions and corrections are welcome.

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concept

Scottish Gaelic in 12 Weeks (Ó Maolalaigh)

Scottish Gaelic in Three Months (Ó Maolalaigh) (Hugo Series)

TAIC

Teach Yourself Complete Gaelic (Robertson & Taylor)

Teach Yourself Gaelic (Robertson & Taylor)

Teach Yourself Gaelic (Roderick Mackinnon)

Cothrom Ionnsachaidh (Ronald Black)

Gàidhlig troimh Chòmhradh (Catrìona Parsons) (3 volumes)

Seallagain (Catrìona Parsons)

Scottish Gaelic (Muriel Fisher) (4 volumes)

Colloquial Scottish Gaelic (Katherine Spadaro & Katie Grahm)

Beginner's Gaelic (James MacLaren)

Bun-Chursa Gàidhlig (Bill Blacklaw)

spelling

xiii-xxiii

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xviii

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3-6

I.25

5-6

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pronouns

personal 1; possessive, 14; demonstrative 26

12

lesson 19

5-6, 12

16

5-6

22, 27, 205; emphatic, 21

I.12

2, 12 (emphatic endings)

I.1; emphatic, I.13; and is, III.9; possessive, IV.11-13; relative, IV.22

thu/sibh, 10, 229; emphatic, 23, 49; possessive, 27. 229; demonstrative, 141; indefinite, 246

99-101

1

present tense of tha

1, 9; 21; conditional 137; past 36; future 100

12

parsing 2, 3, lesson 1, 23; (passive) 51, parsing 2

6-7

17

tha, 5-7, 129, 208; imperative and subjunctive, 163-66

25-28

I.12

8-10

I.1; vs. is, IV.7-11

17, 96, 235

16-17, 40-48

to be present tense, 1

dependent form of the verb - a bheil, chan eil, nach eil

4

15

parsing 2, 3, lesson 1; (gun+) lesson 15, 23; (if) 45

20

27-28

a bheil, chan eil, nach eil, 11-15, 129, 208

25-28

See above

8-10

I.1

17, 235-36

17

a bheil, chan eil, nach eil, 1-2, 14-15

nouns and articles

definite 20, 88-89; indefinite 2; gender 11; articles 11-12

definite, 34; indefinite, 13; gender, 23-24; articles, 23-24

summary 3, lesson 3, 6, 34, 37-39

19, 100-101

57-59

indeclinable and irregular nouns, 122-28

81-85

I.91-92; the, 90-9I. determining gender of nouns, I.6

40-54

I.22; definite, I.2

15, 40-1, 51,129-30, 228-29, 243-46; plurals 51

59-79 (chapters 23-26)

nouns, definite and indefinite, 2-3

possession, to have, aig

2-3, 5

14, 69; le, 70

lesson 12, 59

 

possession, 36-37

23-27

28-29, 66

I.7, 27, 3. I. le III-43-5

19-20

I.5

31-32

29-31

aig, 12

yes and no

4

yes and no, 15-16

lesson 1, 2, 24

20-21

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yes and no, 22

yes and no, I.7

13, 30

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17-19

yes and no, 136-37

yes and no, 3

bha (past tense of tha)

36

past tense of tha, 47-52

parsing 14, lesson 2, 23

134

past tense of tha, 117-119

208; indefinite pronouns, 87-90

past tense of tha, 55, 59

to be: past tense, I.26

8-10

I.9

66-67

past tense of tha, 19-21, 45-52

past tense of to be, 4

adverbs

adverbs, 5; demonstrative adverbs, 27; adverbs of direction, 30-31; adverbs of quantity, 91

adverbs, 16-17; demonstrative adverbs, 38; adverbs of direction, 40-42; adverbs of quantity, 100-1

lesson 2, 10

302

254-55, 267

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sann+adverb, 57; adverbs of motion, 167

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13, glé 5, 14. adverbial clauses, 84

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242

115, 161-64 (thorough list)

adverbs, 62-63

is and bu (assertive verb)

8-9, 23, 43, 54

19-21, 34-36

parsing 6, 7, lesson 19

6-7, 84

17, 77

assertive form of verb to be, 28-35

21, 25, 27, 43 (best treatment)

III.4-6

13, 20, 29, 31-34, 88 (copula)

III.8, IV.50-51; bu, IV.51-53 (good treatment of idioms)

70, 96

39-48 (good treatment)

assertive verb, 40-42

possessive adjectives. See also possession

14-15, 64

25; agam, 26

(mo) lesson 13; (-se) lesson 14

197-198

agam, 37; mo, 169

aig, 23-27;

possessive pronouns, 37-40

I.44, 46, 90

19-20, 26-27; (aig), 56

I.5, I.7

27

possessive pronouns, 103-106

14-15

adjectives

15-16, 26, 126-28

137-8, 151-4

summary 4, 7, lesson 4, 42, 43

59-60, 101-102, 140, 167-69, 183-86, 197-98. 217-18, 318-19

59; formation of, 91-92

140-48

22, 57, 100-6

II.7-8, II.55-62, II.92-93

5, 46, 49. comparison 86-89

I.1; opposites, III.28

18, 32-34, 46, 94,190-91, 232-34; comparison, 65

79-99

adjectives, 55-56

glè and ro

17

ro (too) and glé, 28

lesson 2

glè, 18; ro, 119, 139

glè, 26; ro, 122

glé and ro, 12

glé, 33

glé, I.23, 26

5, 14

I.1

34, 140

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glè and ro, 3-4

verbal nouns

21-22, 113-14

31-33, 123-4

lesson 8

72

68

16, 129-35

112-13

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13-14

I.4

19, 129-30

143-45

8-9, 19-21

zero to twenty

29, 112, 129-31

numerals, 39-40, 139-41

(1-30) lesson 31, 54

30-32, 35, 339

numbers, 35-36, 60

numerals, 154-62

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na nuimhirean, I.71-72

77-80

I.3, I.21

50, 68-76;  ordinals, 113-14

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(1-30), 17-18

days of the week

32; dates 131

days, 42-43

lesson 33

69

days, 65, 327-28

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days of the week, 51, 23, 32, 44;

days of the week, I.26; months, I.81

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I.10

97

numbers, 92-97

days of the week, 17

months, seasons, and holidays

32-33, 79-81

89-90

lesson 33

of year, 138-139; years, 264-65

121-22

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months, 51-52

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months, II.1; seasons, I.20

204-6;  months, 101

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past tense of regular verbs

dependent regular verbs, 74; independent regular verbs, 72-73

dependent regular verbs, 84; independent regular verbs, 81-82

lesson 24, 53; (past participles) lesson 16; (passive of all tenses) lesson 51-53, suppl. 3

134-38

117-21

43-48

127

II.4, 21

24-25

II.8-9

164; 183-84, 238-40

124-26

past tense of regular verbs, 19-21

imperatives

41-42

52-54

lesson 16

commands, 70

commands, 67

imperative moods, 163-66; vocative case, 171-74

112

II.3-6

3, 9, 24-25

III.6

111, 154, 174-75

132-33, 136

imperatives, 15-17

irregular verbs

irregular conditional, 167-68; irregular future, 117-21; irregular past tense, 37-39

irregular conditional, 176-77; irregular future, 127-28; irregular past tense, 48-52

parsing 4, 5, 10-12,  lesson 25,  27; (passive) parsing 10-14; (conditional) 30

278-79

four verbs: roots, past and future and interrogatives, 134; ten verbs, 234

210-19; (most irregular verbs are sneaked in.)

165-69, 180, 184 , 189, 196, 198, 203

II.7, III.7

57-68

beir, IV.3; cluinn, IV.4-5; dean, IV.42-43; faic and thoir, III.18-20; faigh, IV.44-45: rach and abair, III.12-13; ruig, IV.6-7; thig, IV.45-46; thoir, II.13

240-42

138-41

irregular verbs, 21-22

sann

56-58, 146

67-69

lesson 19

349-50

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57, 60, 140 (best treatment)

I-67; III.5

29

IV.10-11

96

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41

simple prepositions. See also prepositional pronouns

62, 93-96, 184

prepositions, 73, 132-33, 135, 195

summary 1-2, lesson 5, 59-62;  (augmented) 17; (non-dative) lesson 47

171, à, às, 7; aig, 32-33; air, 33-34, 199-200; ann, 19-20; a/do, 18-19; gu, 118; le, 44-45, 351, 355; mu, 121, 171-72; tro, 216

preposition, 148; a, 17; aig, 37; air, 38; ann, 87-88; do, 75-76; gu, 105; le, 47; mu, 107, 149; ro, 105-6

17-18; aig, an ann, 30; 23-27; ann, 12; le, 28-35

prepositions, 66-73 (best treatment of propositions)

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14, 16-19

chart, II.16; emphatic endings, IV.60; list, III.29, IV.46-49, IV.58-59

230-32; à 165; ann 101, 148; do 39-40; gu 180; le 35, 77, 187

prepositions, 102, 153-61

simple prepositions, 4-5

dative case (prepositional case)

prepositional case, 67

prepositional case, 78-80

lesson 6-7, 37-38

166-68

dative case of nouns, 103-4

17-18; feminine dative, 36-42

66-74 (Note: Black concentrates more on noun forms than on cases)

II.92-93

17, 40-46, 49-50, 78, 82-83

I.23-24

129-30

60, 63, 76, 84-85, 153,

dative case, 27-9

interrogative \ question words & required verb forms

ciamar?, 6, 78; có?, 5, 8, 78; dé?, 22, 78; có ás?, 5; verbal particles ciamar a / cuine a?, 78

ciamar?, 17; có?, 19, 135-36; dé? 33, 67; có ás?, 16; verbal particles ciamar a / cuine a?, 85-86

lesson 22, 45

negative, 73; permission, 82-83; returning, 8

131, 147

83-86

135-41 (good treatment)

no single location

8-11, 85-86

answering, I.14; future tense, I.19; is (assertive), III.10; past tense, I.9; present tense, I.6

18-19, 115-16

co, ciod, cia, de, 48, 113

cò, dè, ciamar, carson, cuin, càit, 11

telling time

clock, 79-80, 97-98

clock, 106-7

lesson 32

213

time, 47-48, 181-82

Dé'n uair a tha e?, 179-84

telling the time, 74

an t-uaireadair, I.73-76

81

II.2-3

78-81

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telling time, 18-19

genitive case singular of masculine nouns

88-90, 108-9, 111

94-106 (good treatment)

lesson 34, 36-37

114-16

genitive case, 101-3

genitive case of masculine nouns, 91-104; augment "a" in genitive singular, 117-21

66-71

II.72-75, II.92-93

40-41, 49-52, 55

III.23-24

129-30, 170, 201, 245-46

63-79 (best treatment of genitives)

genitive case singular of masculine nouns, 30-2

genitive case singular of feminine nouns

88-90, 108-9, 111

94-106

lesson 35-37

114-116

101-3

genitive case singular of feminine nouns,105-16; augment "a" in genitive singular, 117-21

66-71

See above

40-41, 49-52, 55

II.23-24

129-30, 170, 201, 245-46

63-79

genitive case singular of feminine nouns, 32-3

genitive plural of nouns

92-96, 108-9, 111

94-106 (good treatment)

lesson 39

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101-3, 146 (scanty treatment)

genitive case of masculine nouns, 91-104; genitive case singular of feminine nouns,105-16

80-86

noun declensions (clàran-ainmear), I.92-93; II.92-93

40-41, 49-52, 55

I.23-24

129-30, 245-46

50, 61, 64-71

genitive plural of nouns, 47

personal names

proper names, 84

proper names, 58-59

summary 6

forenames, 198-99, 420-21; surnames, 2-3, 230-31, 282, 421-22

forenames, 170-1, 340; surnames, 196, 341-2; vocatives, 15-16, 76-77, 101

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names, 53, 65-66

I.7; proper names, I.13-14

6-7

I.27

15-16

names, 77-79

Christian names, 5

towns and countries

132-33

countries, 142-43

summary 5 (links to other resources)

98

geographic features, 41-42; hill names, 127

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place-names, 86-7, 102-3; [maps, 53, 86, 156, 158, 163]

III.85-7

17

countries, I.23-24

170-71; Alba, 121; Edinburgh 167-68

adverbs of place, 163

towns and countries, 48-50

names of places, etc.

See above

See above

summary 5 (links to other resources)

7-8, 21, 37-9, 416-19

housenames, 113; placenames, 41-42, 127

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New Zealand III.88

17

geography, II.10, 16-18

170-71

See above

placenames, 7-8

compound prepositions and prepositions taking cases other than dative

composite prepositions, 93-95

composite prepositions, 102-5

lesson 47, summary 2

(scanty treatment)

102, 137 (scanty treatment)

compound prepositions, 140-48

117, 188

II.46-50

55-56

IV.13-16

175-76

160-61 (good list but dated)

compound prepositions and prepositions taking cases other than dative, 60-62

conjunctions

104-5 (good treatment)

114-15 (good treatment)

lesson 23, 25, 30, 41, 48

(no separate treatment)

(no separate treatment)

nas, na (than), 149-53

verbal particles, 135-38; because, 201-3

III.11-13

38-39, 83-84; (agus) 86

I.2, III.3-4; conditional mood, IV.29

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112, 165-66 (good list)

conjunctions, 69-70

future tense of tha (to be)

100

110

parsing 2, 3, lesson 9

153

133-34

49-56, 208

153

I.36, II.5-6, 37, 40-42

8-9

I.19

235

24-25

bithidh, 8-9

-(a)idh form regular verbs (future tense)

regular verbs: future, 100-1

regular verbs: future, 110-12

lesson 26

153-54

133-34

regular verb in future tense, 49-56

future/immediate, 153-54

II.5-6, II.36-8

34-36

III.2

239-40

future tense, 126-29

future tense of irregular verbs, 35-37

-(a)idh form irregular verbs (future tense)

irregular verbs: future, 117-21

irregular verbs: future, 127-29

lesson 27, parsing 4

154-55, 297

regular, 134

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future/immediate, 153-54. See also under irregular verbs

See above

61-64

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161

future tense, 126-29

future tense of irregular verbs, 35-37

-(e)as form of the verb (relative future)

100-1

relative future, 110-12

lesson 21-22, 28

156, 212

135, 181

regular verb in future tense, 49-56, 80

có- type phrases (relative future), 135-39, 141 (best treatment of relative future and relative clauses in chapters 12 and 13

I.35, II.5-6, 37, 40, 42; II.36-38; III.10-11

9, 37, 83

questions, I.19; regular verbs, III.3

132-33

126-28

relative form of the verb, 37-8

a, nach, na relative pronouns

direct relative pronoun, 76,78, 120, 145

direct relative pronoun, 131-32, 154-56

lesson 21-22

See relative future below

no separate discussion.

demonstrative and relative pronouns, 79-82

có-type and nach-type particles, 135-37 (best treatment of relative clauses)

relative pronouns, I.43; relative clauses (roinntean dàimheach) III.10-11

10-11, 32, 82-85

IV.22

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25, 109-13

relative pronouns, 42-3

prepositional pronouns

3, 178; air, 64; le, 59; ri, 73; do, 44, 74

26, 188, 195; air, 74-75; le, 70-72; ri, 83-84; do, 83-84

summary 1, lesson 12, 18, 45

See preposition above

air, 38; le, 46-47, 294; ri, 48-49, 148, See also chapter 7.

table of, 222-23

prepositional pronouns, 29, 57, 164; air, 73; le, 59; ri, 126

air, I.36; le, I.44, III.43; ri, I.54

19-22

air, I.13-14; le/leis, I.17

231-32

prepositional pronouns, 101-103; air, 36; le, 47-48, 151-52, ri, 147, 158;

air, le, ri, 23-24

numbers 20-99

129; personal, 148

139-41; personal, 158

(30+) lesson 44, 54

money, 61

36; money, 60

numerals, 154-62

32, 44

I.70-78

77-80

(11-100), I.21

71

92-97

numbers over thirty, 4

-adh, -ainn form of regular verbs (subjunctive / conditional)

regular conditional/past habitual, 135-37

regular conditional, 145-48

lesson 29, 55

330-33

conditional tense of regular verbs, 277-79

subjunctive mood, 163-66

conditional tense, 144-46

conditional (an tràth claon), II.6, II.63, III.6-7

37-39

IV.33-37; IV.53-57

240

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subjunctive tense (regular verbs) 39-40

-adh, -ainn form of irregular verbs (subjunctive / conditional)

regular conditional/past habitual, 167-68

irregular conditional/past habitual, 176-78

parsing 12, lesson 30

333-35

conditional, 279-81

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conditional tense, 144-46

See above

65-69, 71-73 (passive), 76-77, 83

5.33-37; IV.53-57

240

subjunctive, 129-31

subjunctive tense (irregular verbs) 39-40

subjunctive (conditional, imperfect) tense of to be

tha conditional/past habitual, 137

tha conditional/past habitual, 147

parsing 2, lesson 11

314-16, 321

263-66

208; tha, imperative and subjunctive, 163-66

conditional tense, 144

II.6, 63, III.6, 10

33-34

IV.29-33

236

to be in the subjunctive, 21-22

bhithinn, bhitheadh tu, 9-10

ma, nan, mur (if, if not)

76, 138-39

86, 148-50

lesson 48

74

ma / mur eil, 69; nam / mura, 265-66

a (relative pronoun), 30; ma, na, 50; as, nas, 149-50

136-37, 164

III.11

38-39, 83-84

III.3-4

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122-23, 130

if in Gaelic, 59-60

comparison of regular adjectives

141-42

151-54

lesson 43

217-18

159-60, 185-86

149-53

181-84

III.13-15, 32, 37, 53, 57

86

III.26

233-34

88-90

comparison of regular adjectives, 57-58

comparison of irregular adjectives

142-43

152

lesson 43

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159

149-53

181-84

III.13-15, 32, 37, 53

86-89

III.26

233-34

91

comparison of irregular adjectives, 58-59

dependent clauses gun (that)

76-78, 144-45

85-88, 154-56

lesson 15

170, 245-46

147, 207–8

175-78

137, 140

I.16,23 et passim

83-84

IV.23-24

182-84

gu'n, 112,123

14-15

nominal inversion

155-56

165-66

(word order reversal) lesson 20, 40

263-64

223

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inverted nominal, 117. (Only detailed treatment)

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74-77

nominal inversion, IV.24-27

169-70

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compound tenses

perfect, 158-60

perfect, 168-72

lesson 49

air, 199-200

air, 171-72

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189-94

II.6-7; III.8-9

23-24

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149

compound tenses, 67-69

('gam/'nam) (prepositional possessive adjectives)

('gam/'gad, 114. ('nam / 'nad), 51

('gam/'gad), 123-24, 166, ('nam / 'nad), 62, 65

summary 2, lesson 17

('gam/'gad), 85; ('nam/'nad), 261-63

direct objects: pronouns, 78-9

prepositional possessives, 136-39

('gam/'gad), 116-17, ('nam/'nad), 47-48, 206

I.27, ('gam/'gad), I.53-54, II.18; ('nam/'nad), I.74, II.17, III.48;

27-28 ,

(nam/nad), IV.16-18; (gam/gad), IV.18-19; dol ga, IV.42

90-2, 230-31

('gam/'gad), 51, 106, 146. ('nam/'nad) 106-8

prepositions aig and ann with possessive adjectives, 24-5

defective verbs. (Nominal Inversion is a related concept)

177-78; modal verbs, 152; inversion, 155-56 (best treatment)

modal adjectives, 162, 186-87; inversion, 165-66 (best treatment)

(incomplete verbs), lesson 20, 40, 50; (passive) 52

faod, 82-83; feum, 156-57

faodaidh, 76; feumaidh, 136

irregular and defective verbs, 175-78; 220-21

feum and faod, 167-68

II.30, III.23

68-70

faod, II.12; feum, I.5

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verbs, 150-53 (thorough list)

defective verbs, 64-65

adjectives declining with nouns

15-16, 126-28

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4, summary 4

167-69

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41-43, 46, 49-50

I.1

232

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