Emphatic Suffixes

Level 3

Emphatic suffixes contrast possessors or people: mo leabharsa, agatsa. Their form and attachment depend on the phrase.

How It Works

Emphatic suffixes contrast possessors or people: mo leabharsa, agatsa. Their form and attachment depend on the phrase.

Emphatic suffixes can attach to inflected prepositions and to the end of a possessed noun phrase. Agatsa contrasts you with another possessor; mo leabharsa contrasts my book with someone else's. The suffix's written form depends on its host, so keep the complete attested phrase.

Examples (3)

  1. Tá leabhar agatsa.

    You have a book. (Contrasting you with someone else.)

  2. Seo mo leabharsa.

    This is my book. (Contrasting mine with another.)

  3. Tá an carr aicise.

    She has the car. (Emphasizing her.)

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Emphatic SuffixesLevel 3

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Extend contrastive personal emphasis to suffixes on noun phrases and prepositions.

Words in This Pattern

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