tá + Adjective
Predicative Adjectives
An adjective after tá describes the subject: Tá an bhean maith. It does not automatically receive the lenition of a feminine attributive adjective.
How It Works
An adjective after tá describes the subject: Tá an bhean maith. It does not automatically receive the lenition of a feminine attributive adjective.
After tá, the adjective is the sentence's description rather than an adjective attached directly to a noun. Keep its ordinary form in these examples: the feminine subject does not on its own change maith to mhaith. Noun phrases such as bean mhaith follow another rule.
Examples (3)
- Tá an bhean maith.
The woman is good.
- Tá an fhuinneog mór.
The window is large.
- Tá na páistí sásta.
The children are happy.
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A predicative adjective describes the subject after bí.
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