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Past and future tense of regular verbs

Forming the past and future tenses of verbs in Gaelic is straightforward on the whole. If you know the root of a verb, then you can form other tenses.

The past tense

There are variations in the way verbs form the past tense. They can be looked at in the following way:

• To form the past tense of verbs beginning with a consonant insert an h after the first letter of the root, eg ���ù����. The three exceptions are verbs beginning with the letters l, n, or r. They do not require an h, eg laigh
• All verbs beginning with a vowel put dh' before the initial vowel to form the past tense, eg ���&#��27;ò��
• Verbs which begin with f + vowel have dh' inserted before the f and have an h inserted after the f, eg fuirich becomes dh'fhuirich.

NB There are no verbs beginning with the letter h in Gaelic.

Examples

Verb begins with consonants b, c, d, g, m, p, s, t

Verb begins with consonants l, n, r

Verb begins with vowel

Verb begins with f + vowel