An Bhlaoighne: Difference between revisions

* Monosyllabic open-syllable nouns are more irregular: ''dó'' 'city', construct state ''dá''.

===== Placing the article in a construct chain =====

# 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.

# <!-- inspired by "beit-halachmi" --> Especially when a suffix is added to the whole phrase, the article may be placed right before the last word: ''Cló an Fhábhaí'' 'the Clofabian (person)', ''Cló an Fhábhais'' 'the Clofabian language'. 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; this distinguishes, for example, ''NOUN1 an1 NOUN2-í'' (-í modifies the whole phrase "NOUN1 NOUN2") and ''NOUN1 an2 NOUN2-í'' (-í modifies NOUN2).

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.

==== Pronouns ====

Independent pronouns: riúr, qéiq, aín, aís, ár, annsa, ann, léil, déid, bhéibh, anna