cárb

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See also: carb and carb-

Irish

Alternative forms

cár b’ (superseded)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kaːɾˠbˠ/

Particle

cárb (copular form used before a vowel, form used before a consonant cár)

where is..., what is...
Níl a fhios agam ó thalamh na bhfionn cárb as é.
I don’t know where on earth he comes from

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Irish copular forms

Simple copular forms

Present/future
	Affirmative	Negative	Interrogative	Neg. inter.
Main clauses	is	ní	an	nach
Direct relative clauses	is	nach
Indirect relative clauses	ar, arb^v
Other subordinate clauses	gur, gurb^v		an	nach
Past/conditional
	Affirmative	Negative	Interrogative	Neg. inter.
Main clauses	ba, b’^v	níor, níorbh^v	ar, arbh^v	nár, nárbh^v
Direct relative clauses	ba, ab^v	nár, nárbh^v
Indirect relative clauses	ar, arbh^v
Other subordinate clauses	gur, gurbh^v		ar, arbh^v	nár, nárbh^v
Present subjunctive
	Affirmative	Negative
	gura, gurab^v	nára, nárab^v

Compound copular forms

Base word	Present/future	Past/conditional
cá	cár, cárb^v	cár, cárbh^v
cé	cér, cérb^v	cér, cérbh^v
dá		dá mba, dá mb’^v
de/do	dar, darb^v	dar, darbh^v
faoi	faoinar, faoinarb^v	faoinar, faoinarbh^v
i	inar, inarb^v	inar, inarbh^v
le	lenar, lenarb^v	lenar, lenarbh^v
má	más	má ba, má b’^v
mura	mura, murab^v	murar, murarbh^v
ó (prep.)	ónar, ónarb^v	ónar, ónarbh^v
ó (conj.)	ós	ó ba, ó b’^v
trí	trínar, trínarb^v	trínar, trínarbh^v

^v Used before vowel sounds

Further reading

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cárb”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Ó Dónaill, Niall, Ua Maoileoin, Pádraig (1991) “cárb”, in An Foclóir Beag (in Irish), Dublin: An Gúm

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