"a' bhean sgoinneil"

Translation: the brilliant wife

[Mereth_Tararien]

Are femenine nouns preceded by "a'" instead of "an "?

[silmeth]

Feminine nouns in singular are lenited by the article, and an before a lenited consonant changes to a’, so in a way – yes. But it really depends what goes after the article, and not on the gender. Eg. the s after the article gets lenited to t-s (pronounced /t/), so eg. sùil eye (a fem. noun) changes to an t-sùil (an doesn’t change before /t/). Eaglais church is also feminine but it starts with a vowel, so the church is an eaglais.

But then the article always causes lenition in dative, so in the boat is anns a’ bhàta even though bàta boat is masculine.

[JoHewitt4]

Is any one else having trouble with this speaker's pronunciation of this and so many other phrases? Her pronunciation of sgoinneil had a "yat" sound at the end. When does "l" sound like "t"?

[Jody421786]

Is there anyone that I can speak to about the Animals Lessons? It would seem that the only thing in the lessons and translations is about anything but Animals! What the heck is going on??

[JackFergusonP-VA]

Tha a'bhean sgoinnell aice.
Does that work?