"These are two buses."
Translation:Seo dà bhus.
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Because the numeral dà takes a singular form of the noun (in older language it took a separate dual form, which for some nouns was identical to singular, so when dual as a separate category disappeared, it was replaced by singular).
So dà bhus bus tri busaichean. You can see more examples of Gaelic numerals at Gaelic Grammar Wiki.
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Is there a difference between "these are two buses" and "there are two buses"?
I think so. It's unfortunate that in English the two sentences are only different by one letter while in Gaidhlig the latter would be:
Tha dà bhus ann
While "these are", which indicates that the buses are right there to be pointed to, translates to
Seo dà bhus
I actually got this wrong the first time because I read it too quickly and put the other translation instead.
This is especially aggravating for me because there's a crack on my screen right where the 's' in "these" shows up, and it just makes SO much more sense that someone would be saying "there are two buses" so I keep getting it wrong repeatedly