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 Prescriptively, there are two possible ways to do this:
 # A construct chain can have the article placed before the whole chain: ''an Chló Fhábh'' 'Clofabin River' (which mutates the first noun according to its declension), and lenition triggered by preceding construct state nouns is applied as usual.
-# Especially when a suffix is added, the article is placed right before the last word: ''Cló an Fhábhaí'' 'the Clofabian (person)'. The article's number depends on whether the last noun is singular or plural in the case of no suffix, or on the number of the whole noun phrase in the case when there is suffix. The article forces the last word to mutate the same way as the ''first'' noun in the chain.
+# <!-- inspired by "beit-halachmi" --> Especially when a suffix is added, the article is placed right before the last word: ''Cló an Fhábhaí'' 'the Clofabian (person)'. The article's number depends on whether the last noun is singular or plural in the case of no suffix, or on the number of the whole noun phrase in the case when there is suffix. The article forces the last word to mutate the same way as the ''first'' noun in the chain.
 Descriptively, only the first construction is used in daily speech, and the choice of ''an'' / ''na'' is determined by whether the whole construct phrase is singular or plural.