triúr / ceathrar

Counting People

Level 2

Personal numerals include triúr and ceathrar: triúr páistí. Following noun forms and mutation are learned with the personal-number construction.

How It Works

Personal numerals include triúr and ceathrar: triúr páistí. Following noun forms and mutation are learned with the personal-number construction.

Use personal numerals such as triúr and ceathrar when counting people. They can stand alone, or be followed by a noun in the personal-number construction. Triúr páistí counts three children without treating páistí as the singular object-counting form.

Examples (3)

  1. Tá triúr páistí anseo.

    There are three children here.

  2. Tháinig ceathrar.

    Four people came.

  3. Tá triúr againn.

    There are three of us.

How It Connects

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triúr / ceathrarLevel 2Counting People

Learn This First

Extend the personal counting pattern beyond beirt.

Words in This Pattern

triúrceathrarcúigearseisearseachtarochtarnaonúrdeichniúr