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Tha feum agam air ... (I need ... )

After a long summer of travelling, adventure …. and, of course, learning a wee bit of Gaelic along the way. Munro is finding himself running a little low on funds. So who does he turn to? His walking bank, Seanair of course!

Munro	Feasgar math. Tha feum agam air rudeigin. Good afternoon. I need something.
Seanair	Feasgar math. Dè tha sin ma tha? Good afternoon. What is that (then)?
Munro	Tha feum agam air airgead. I need money.
Seanair	Airgead! A-rithist? Carson a tha feum agad air airgead? Money! Again? Why do you need money?
Munro	Chan eil gu leòr agam, agus tha mi ag iarraidh cliop. I don’t have enough and I need a haircut.
Seanair	Chan eil feum agad air airgead idir. Tha gu leòr agad! You don’t need money at all. You have plenty!

Now listen to their conversation.

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So Munro is broke and he needs the cash to get a cliop (literally: ‘a clip’). You’ve just learnt a very handy phrase: Tha feum agam air – it literally translates as There is a need upon me (for).

Check out our useful vocabulary below for some more examples. These phrases imply that you are expressing a ‘want’ in different words. Handy, eh?

Useful vocabulary

Gaelic	English
Tha feum agam air ...	I need ...
Tha feum agam air àite-fuirich	I need a place to stay
Tha feum agam air srùbag	I need a cuppa
Tha feum agam air biadh	I need food
Tha feum agam air rudeigin ri òl	I need something to drink
Bidh feum agam air sin	I will need that
Bidh feum agad air seo	You will need this
Bidh feum aca air taigh a cheannach	They will need to buy a house
Cha bhi feum agad air mòran	You won’t need much
Cha bhi feum agam air sian a dhèanamh	I won’t need to do anything
Bha feum aige air càr	He needed a car
Cha robh feum aice air dad a ràdh	She didn’t need to say anything
A bheil feum agad air sin?	Do you need that?
An robh feum againn air biadh a cheannach?	Did we need to buy food?
Tha e feumach air a leabaidh	He needs his bed
Tha mi feumach air cliop	I need a haircut

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