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Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bˠ/ (before (fh)a, (fh)á, (fh)o, (fh)ó, (fh)u, (fh)ú)
- IPA(key): /bʲ/ (before (fh)e, (fh)é, (fh)i, (fh)í)
Particle
b’
- Apocopic form of ba
B’fhearr liom cupán tae.- I’d prefer a cup of tea.
Usage notes
- This form is used before words beginning with a vowel or fh followed by a vowel, except not before the pronouns é, ea, í, iad.
Derived terms
Irish copular forms
Simple copular forms
Present/future
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Affirmative |
Negative |
Interrogative |
Neg. inter.
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Main clauses
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is |
ní |
an |
nach
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Direct relative clauses
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nach
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Indirect relative clauses |
ar, arbv
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Other subordinate clauses |
gur, gurbv |
an |
nach
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Past/conditional
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Affirmative |
Negative |
Interrogative |
Neg. inter.
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Main clauses |
ba, b’v |
níor, níorbhv |
ar, arbhv |
nár, nárbhv
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Direct relative clauses |
ba, abv
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nár, nárbhv
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Indirect relative clauses |
ar, arbhv
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Other subordinate clauses |
gur, gurbhv |
ar, arbhv |
nár, nárbhv
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Present subjunctive
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Affirmative |
Negative
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gura, gurabv |
nára, nárabv
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Compound copular forms
Base word |
Present/future |
Past/conditional
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cá |
cár, cárbv |
cár, cárbhv
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cé |
cér, cérbv |
cér, cérbhv
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dá
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dá mba, dá mb’v
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de/do |
dar, darbv |
dar, darbhv
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faoi |
faoinar, faoinarbv |
faoinar, faoinarbhv
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i |
inar, inarbv |
inar, inarbhv
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le |
lenar, lenarbv |
lenar, lenarbhv
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má |
más |
má ba, má b’v
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mura |
mura, murabv |
murar, murarbhv
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ó (prep.) |
ónar, ónarbv |
ónar, ónarbhv
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ó (conj.) |
ós |
ó ba, ó b’v
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trí |
trínar, trínarbv |
trínar, trínarbhv
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v Used before vowel sounds
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Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Maltese
- bi (before a consonant cluster)
- imb (in fixed expressions)
Etymology
From Arabic بِ (bi).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b/ (before a vowel, sonorant, or voiced obstruent)
- IPA(key): /p/ (before a voiceless obstruent)
Preposition
b’
- with (chiefly an ingredient, means, concomitant, quality)
- Antonym: bla
- times, (multiplied) by
- erbgħa b’erbgħa jiġu sittax ― four times four equals sixteen
- għamel erbgħa b’erbgħa ― multiply four by four
Inflection
See also
Scottish Gaelic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p-/
- Hyphenation: b'
Verb
b'
- Form of bu used before vowels and fh-
References
- Colin Mark (2003) “bu”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 96
Yola
Etymology
Influenced by Irish b'.
Verb
b'
- Apocopic form of ba (“to be”)
1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 6, page 86:Yith w'had any lhuck, oor naame wode b' zung,- If we had any luck, our name would have been sung
1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 7, page 86:Our eein wode b' mistern t' dearnt up ee skee.- Our eyes would be dazzled to look up to the sky.
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 86