gaelach

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Irish

Alternative forms

Adjective

gaelach (genitive singular masculine gaelaigh, genitive singular feminine gaelaí, plural gaelacha, comparative gaelaí)

  1. Alternative form of Gaelach (“native to Ireland; homely, pleasant; common, ordinary”)

Declension

Declension of gaelach
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative gaelach ghaelach gaelacha;
ghaelacha2
vocative ghaelaigh gaelacha
genitive gaelaí gaelacha gaelach
dative gaelach;
ghaelach1 		ghaelach;
ghaelaigh (archaic) 		gaelacha;
ghaelacha2
Comparative níos gaelaí
Superlative is gaelaí

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 gaelach
radical lenition eclipsis
gaelach ghaelach ngaelach

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

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