Breathnach

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Irish

Adjective

Breathnach (genitive singular masculine Breathnaigh, genitive singular feminine Breathnaí, plural Breathnacha, not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of Breatnach (“Welsh”)

Declension

Declension of Breathnach
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative Breathnach Bhreathnach Breathnacha;
Bhreathnacha²
Vocative Bhreathnaigh Breathnacha
Genitive Breathnaí Breathnacha Breathnach
Dative Breathnach;
Bhreathnach¹ 		Bhreathnach;
Bhreathnaigh (archaic) 		Breathnacha;
Bhreathnacha²
Comparative níos Breathnaí
Superlative is Breathnaí

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Noun

Breathnach m (genitive singular Breathnaigh, nominative plural Breathnaigh)

  1. Alternative form of Breatnach (“Welshman”)

Declension

Declension of Breathnach

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative Breathnach Breathnaigh
Vocative a Bhreathnaigh a Bhreathnacha
Genitive Breathnaigh Breathnach
Dative Breathnach Breathnaigh

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an Breathnach na Breathnaigh
Genitive an Bhreathnaigh na mBreathnach
Dative leis an mBreathnach

don Bhreathnach

leis na Breathnaigh

Noun

Breathnach f (genitive singular Breathnaí, nominative plural Breathnacha)

  1. Alternative form of Breatnach (“Welshwoman”)

Declension

Declension of Breathnach

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative Breathnach Breathnacha
Vocative a Bhreathnach a Bhreathnacha
Genitive Breathnaí Breathnach
Dative Breathnach Breathnacha

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an Bhreathnach na Breathnacha
Genitive na Breathnaí na mBreathnach
Dative leis an mBreathnach

don Bhreathnach

leis na Breathnacha

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
Breathnach Bhreathnach mBreathnach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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