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===== Scottish Gaelic has broad vs slender stems and different conjugation patterns, but people don’t usually talk about “Class 1 / Class 2” in the exact Irish way. =====

Key points for Scottish Gaelic:
* Present independent forms are mostly periphrastic: - Tha mi a’ bruidhinn. – “I am speaking.”
* The finite present forms (where they exist) are much more restricted and often just 3rd person (e.g. can “say” → can “he says”).

When grammars do talk about verb classes, they tend to distinguish things like:
* Verbs whose stem ends in broad consonant vs slender consonant.
* Verbs in -ich, -il, -air etc. which behave a bit like Irish -igh/-il/-(a)ir verbs.
* Consonant-stem vs vowel-stem verbs.

So the motif is similar (stem shape & broad/slender decide the paradigm), but:

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Functionally:
* Irish: still has a robust synthetic present with -ann / -íonn.
* Scottish: present is mostly analytic periphrasis (tha + verbal noun); finite forms are more restricted and the classification is less central in basic grammar.