dár

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Irish

Pronunciation

Contraction

dár (triggers lenition; used with regular past tense verbs)

  1. 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.
  2. Contraction of do + ar: to/for which/whom
    gach díol dár fhulaing séevery treatment that he endured

Contraction

dár (triggers eclipsis)

  1. Contraction of de + ár.
    beagán dár muintira few of our people
  2. Contraction of do + ár.
    gan aon dár mbuaireamhwith no one to trouble us

Usage notes

  • This contraction is obligatory; that is, *de/do ar/ár never appears uncontracted.