What did she say?

Dè thuirt ise?

Anne is really nosey and was pestering poor John for his gossip. Here’s some vocabulary they used.

Irregular verbs

Let’s look at the table of irregular verbs again

Òrdugh	command	An tràth caithte	The past tense
abair / can	say	thuirt	said
beir	catch	rug	caught
cluinn	hear	chuala	heard
dèan	do	rinn	made
faic	see	chunnaic	saw
faigh	get	fhuair	got
rach	go	chaidh	went
ruig	arrive	ràinig	came
thoir	give	thug	gave
thig	come	thàinig	came

But what is different about thuirt in the past tense?

Thuirt becomes tuirt following an , cha or nach . Unlike most other verbs in the past tense, with thuirt there is no do following an , cha or nach.