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How to count in Scottish Gaelic
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➡ In today's lesson you will learn how to count in the Scottish Gaelic language, mainly spoken in Scotland and the Hebrides islands.

You may want to learn the numbers in Gaelic. It’s one of the first things that anyone learns in any language.

Happy learning!

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Cardinal Numbers in Scottish Gaelic[edit | edit source]

01-10[edit | edit source]

The numbers one to ten are quite simple in Gaelic

Number Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig)
1 aon
2 dhà
3 trì
4 ceithir
5 còig
6 sia
7 seachd
8 ochd
9 naoi
10 deich

11-20[edit | edit source]

The numbers 11-20 are also quite straightforward in Gaelic. The word deug is added after the number, just like the English suffix "-teen". The only exception for this is the number twelve. After the number two, the word after is always lenited (or an h is added after the first letter), deug is no exception, and so it becomes dheug.

Number Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig)
11 aon deug
12 dhà dheug
13 trì deug
14 ceithir deug
15 còig deug
16 sia deug
17 seachd deug
18 ochd deug
19 naoi deug
20 fichead

30-90[edit | edit source]

Number Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig)
30 deich air fhichead, trithead
40 dà fhichead, ceathrad
50 dà fhichead 's deich, leth-cheud, caogad
60 trì fichead, siagad
70 trì fichead 's deich, seachad
80 ceithir fichead, ochdad
90 ceithir fichead 's deich, naochad

100-1 billion[edit | edit source]

Number Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig)
100 ceud
1,000 mìle
1,000,000 millean
1,000,000,000 billean

Ordinal Numbers in Scottish Gaelic[edit | edit source]

Number Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig) English
1o ciad first
2o dàrna / dara second
3o treas third

mìr - fractions[edit | edit source]

Number Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig) English
1/2 leth half
1/4 cairteal, ceathramh quarter
% ceudad percent
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Videos[edit | edit source]

Scottish Gaelic Numbers 1 to 10[edit | edit source]

Scottish Gaelic - Numbers 1-20[edit | edit source]

Other Lessons[edit | edit source]

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