buanfasach

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Irish

Etymology

From buanfas (“durability”) +‎ -ach.

Adjective

buanfasach (genitive singular masculine buanfasaigh, genitive singular feminine buanfasaí, plural buanfasacha, comparative buanfasaí)

  1. durable, hard-wearing

Declension

Declension of buanfasach
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative buanfasach bhuanfasach buanfasacha;
bhuanfasacha2
vocative bhuanfasaigh buanfasacha
genitive buanfasaí buanfasacha buanfasach
dative buanfasach;
bhuanfasach1 		bhuanfasach;
bhuanfasaigh (archaic) 		buanfasacha;
bhuanfasacha2
Comparative níos buanfasaí
Superlative is buanfasaí

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

Mutation

Mutated forms of buanfasach
radical lenition eclipsis
buanfasach bhuanfasach mbuanfasach

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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