sonrach

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Irish

Etymology

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Adjective

sonrach (genitive singular masculine sonraigh, genitive singular feminine sonraí, plural sonracha, comparative sonraí)

  1. particular, specific
  2. Alternative form of sonraíoch (“noticeable, remarkable; peculiar, extraordinary; abnormal, grotesque”)

Declension

Declension of sonrach
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative sonrach shonrach sonracha;
shonracha2
vocative shonraigh sonracha
genitive sonraí sonracha sonrach
dative sonrach;
shonrach1 		shonrach;
shonraigh (archaic) 		sonracha;
shonracha2
Comparative níos sonraí
Superlative is sonraí

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

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of sonrach
radical lenition eclipsis
sonrach shonrach
after an, tsonrach 		not applicable

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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