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Irish
Pronunciation
Contraction
dár (triggers lenition; used with regular past tense verbs)
- Contraction of de + ar: of/from which/whom
1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 64:ḱē gə rø šē ān ȳstə, xivnə šē əŕ x ilə ryd, dār xuələ šē.- [Cé go raibh sé an-aosta, chuimhnigh sé ar chuile rud dár chuala sé.]
- Although he was very old, he remembered everything of which he heard.
- Contraction of do + ar: to/for which/whom
- gach díol dár fhulaing sé ― every treatment that he endured
Contraction
dár (triggers eclipsis)
- Contraction of de + ár.
- beagán dár muintir ― a few of our people
- Contraction of do + ár.
- gan aon dár mbuaireamh ― with no one to trouble us
Usage notes
- This contraction is obligatory; that is, *de/do ar/ár never appears uncontracted.
Irish preposition contractions
Basic form
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Contracted with
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Copular forms
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an (“the sg”) |
na (“the pl”) |
mo (“my”) |
do (“your”) |
a (“his, her, their; which (present)”) |
ár (“our”) |
ar (“which (past)”) |
(before consonant) |
(present/future before vowel) |
(past/conditional before vowel)
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de (“from”) |
den |
de na desna* |
de mo dem* |
de do ded*, det* |
dá
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dár |
dar |
darb |
darbh
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do (“to, for”) |
don |
do na dosna* |
do mo dom* |
do do dod*, dot* |
dá
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dár |
dar |
darb |
darbh
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faoi (“under, about”) |
faoin |
faoi na |
faoi mo |
faoi do |
faoina |
faoinár
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faoinar |
faoinarb |
faoinarbh
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i (“in”) |
sa, san |
sna |
i mo im* |
i do id*, it* |
ina |
inár
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inar |
inarb |
inarbh
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le (“with”) |
leis an |
leis na |
le mo lem* |
le do led*, let* |
lena |
lenár
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lenar |
lenarb |
lenarbh
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ó (“from, since”) |
ón |
ó na ósna* |
ó mo óm* |
ó do ód*, ót* |
óna |
ónár
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ónar |
ónarb |
ónarbh
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trí (“through”) |
tríd an |
trí na |
trí mo |
trí do |
trína |
trínár
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trínar |
trínarb |
trínarbh
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*Dialectal.
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