pointeáilte

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Irish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Participle

pointeáilte

  1. past participle of pointeáil

Adjective

pointeáilte

  1. clean-cut, dapper, fastidious (as in painstaking), neat (of person), smart, spruce, tidy
  2. particular, punctilious
  3. punctual (prompt)
    Synonyms: féichiúnta, poncúil, spriocúil
  4. precise (exact, accurate; of person)
    Synonyms: cruinn, beacht
  5. exact (careful with details)
  6. delicate (especially of sports movement etc)

Declension

Declension of pointeáilte
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative pointeáilte phointeáilte pointeáilte;
phointeáilte²
Vocative phointeáilte pointeáilte
Genitive pointeáilte pointeáilte pointeáilte
Dative pointeáilte;
phointeáilte¹ 		phointeáilte pointeáilte;
phointeáilte²
Comparative níos pointeáilte
Superlative is pointeáilte

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

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
pointeáilte phointeáilte bpointeáilte
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “poinnteálta”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society

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