an fear seo

Demonstratives After Nouns

Level 1

Seo and sin follow a definite noun phrase: an fear seo, an teach sin. An adjective stays inside the noun phrase: an teach mór sin.

How It Works

Seo and sin follow a definite noun phrase: an fear seo, an teach sin. An adjective stays inside the noun phrase: an teach mór sin.

To say this or that with an ordinary noun phrase, use the definite article before the noun and seo or sin after it. Any descriptive adjective comes before the demonstrative. Seo can also stand at the beginning of a separate presentational construction.

Examples (3)

  1. Tá an fear seo anseo.

    This man is here.

  2. Is maith liom an teach sin.

    I like that house.

  3. Feicim an teach mór sin.

    I see that big house.

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an fear seoLevel 1Demonstratives After Nouns

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