Asking for drinks Ag iarraidh deoch
How are you? (plural / polite) Ciamar a tha sibh?
Look out for the following pieces of vocabulary in this clip.
To ask how someone is, you would say:
ciamar a tha sibh? how are you?
There are two words for 'you' in Gaelic: sibh and thu.
Use thu when you speak to a child or friend.
Use sibh to talk to someone older than you, someone in authority or more than one person.
If in doubt, use sibh.
PersonNeach
GaelicGàidhlig
EnglishBeurla
| Man 1 | A Chaluim? | Malcolm? |
| Calum | Tì. | Tea. |
| Man 1 | Iain? | John? |
| Iain | Tì, mas e ur toil e. | Tea, please. |
| Man 1 | Anna? | Anna? |
| Anna | Cofaidh. | Coffee. |
| Man 1 | A Dhòmhnaill? | Donald? |
| Dòmhnall | Cofaidh, mas e ur toil e. | Coffee please? |
| Man 1 | Seo. | Here. |
| Calum | Tapadh leibh. | Thank you. |