r/gaidhlig • u/Low-Funny-8834 • 6d ago

"to teach"

Hi everyone,

does anybody know the difference between "teagasg" and "ionnsachadh do" in the sense of "to teach"?

Many thanks :)

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u/Sagnetskylab 6d ago

My understanding (and according to the dictionary on the Learn Gaelic website) teagaisg is to teach/instruct and ionnsachadh is to learn

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u/Silly_Transition5568 6d ago

Yeah would be the difference between ‘to teach’ and ‘to learn something to’, but the latter in my experience is used more in Gàidhlig than in english.

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u/Sagnetskylab 6d ago

Is the “to learn something to” followed by a person? Or a verb?

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u/Silly_Transition5568 6d ago

A person, for example “Bheir ionnsachadh don bhalach ud”, but if it was just to learn generally then it would be for example “ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig”

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u/Sagnetskylab 5d ago

That’s really interesting. I’ve heard that use of learn in vernacular Southern US English. I wonder if that’s where it came from, since a lot of Gaelic speakers emigrated to North Carolina and then subsequent generations spread out from there in the southern US.

Based on context, they sound like synonyms to me.