"an fheòrag agus an nathair"
Translation:the squirrel and the snake
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Note that fheòrag does not start with /f/ – it starts with a vowel! It is /oːraɡ/.
You would eg. say ann am feòrag /auNəm fjɔ:rag/ for in a squirrel (but that’s a rather weird thing to say), but when the "f" gets lenited there’s no longer a reason for an to assimilate to am, so you use an fheòrag /ən´ɔːraɡ/ the squirrel.
Similarly it’s always a’, and not am, before lenited bh, ph, mh (eg. a’ mhàthair the mother, not *am mhàthair).
Note that it’s similar to indefinite article a/an in English: you put a before consonants (a city, a hill) and an before vowels (an airplane) – but that only depends on pronunciation, not on spelling, so you write an honour, an hour, etc. even though there is h written at the beginning.
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Leann ann am feòrag. Tha e a' coimhead sgreamhail. Ach bidh cuimhne agam air bhon dràsta fhèin!
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Omg, cha robh dùil agam ris an fhreagairt seo… B’ fheàrr leam nach fhaca mi riamh e.
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figured that out because someone said female nouns had an + lenition when starting with F and male had am! so proud :3