níorbh / arbh

Past copular negation and questions include forms such as níorbh and arbh before suitable sounds. Their distribution differs from ordinary verb particles.

Past copular negatives and questions have forms that vary with the following sound and construction. Before vowel-initial aoibhinn, the forms níorbh and arbh contain bh. Before a consonant in other classification frames, different forms occur; do not append bh to every past copular particle.