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How to count in Scottish Gaelic
➡ 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!
01-10
The numbers one to ten are quite simple in Gaelic
| NUMBER | ÀIREAMH | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | aon | |
| 2 | dhà | |
| 3 | trì | |
| 4 | ceithir | |
| 5 | còig | |
| 6 | sia | |
| 7 | seachd | |
| 8 | ochd | |
| 9 | naoi | |
| 10 | deich |
11-20
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 | ÀIREAMH | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |