Noun Declension Patterns

Level 3

Irish traditionally groups nouns into five declensions. Genitive singular and plural behavior, gender and stem changes determine useful patterns rather than an English case ending.

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Irish traditionally groups nouns into five declensions. Genitive singular and plural behavior, gender and stem changes determine useful patterns rather than an English case ending.

A declension is a group of nouns with related inflection patterns. Learn a noun's gender, genitive singular and plural alongside its citation form. The five traditional groups do not remove irregularities, and plural behavior must still be checked for the particular noun.

Examples (3)

  1. Seo teach an fhir.

    This is the man's house.

  2. Tá doras na scoile dúnta.

    The school's door is closed.

  3. Cá bhfuil ainm an chailín?

    Where is the girl's name?

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