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Tutor della CommunityGaeilge: Strong vs Weak Plurals
How do you determine whether a noun plural form is weak or strong again? I am trying to figure out what plural adjective forms to add onto plural nouns in the nominative and genitive cases. I forget whether plural adjectives undergo mutations too depending on whether the noun ends in a broad or slender consonant. Maybe that is only done in the singular?
31 dic 2018 18:04
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For strong plurals, the plural is the same in all cases (which generally means that some ending is added to the singular form, e.g. -í, -anna, -acha, etc.); for weak plurals, the genitive plural is different to the plural form of the other cases (usually the nominative singular is formed by slenderisation (1st declension) or by adding -a (mostly 2nd declension), and the genitive plural is the same as the nominative singular (e.g. leabhar, npl. leabhair, gpl. leabhar; lámh, npl. lámha, gpl. lámh), but there are some 2nd and 5th declension nouns which end in a broad consonant in the genitive plural (e.g. súil, npl. súile, gpl. súl; lacha, npl. lachain, gpl. lachan), and a few irregular nouns which also have a weak plural (e.g. bean, npl. mná, gpl. ban; bó, npl. ba, gpl. bó)). In the plural, adjectives are lenited after a plural noun that ends with a slender consonant, regardless of case or gender (though in practice genitive plurals rarely, if ever, end in a slender consonant). Also, for nouns with weak plurals, the singular form of the adjective is used in the genitive plural (e.g. iasc na súl mór, not *móra).
3 gennaio 2019
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Competenze linguistiche
Olandese, Inglese, Francese, Gaelico (irlandese), Italiano, Giapponese, Altro, Spagnolo
Lingua di apprendimento
Olandese, Inglese, Francese, Gaelico (irlandese), Italiano, Giapponese, Altro, Spagnolo
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