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38 ETYMOLOGY. FOCLACHADH.
EXAMPLES.
Bàrd, mas. a poet.
Indefinite.
Samplairean.
Nom.
Gen.
Dat.
Acc*
Singular.
bàrd, apoet.
bàird, ofapoet.
bàrd, to apoet.
bàrd, a poet.
7 J.
Voc. a bhàird, poet.
DEFINITE NOUNS-
A noun declined with the
article prefixed to it, is Deji-
nite, and a noun without the
article is Indefinite.
7. A definite noun mas-
culine beginning with a con-
sonant, except d, Z, n, r, s, £,
aspirates the genitive and
dative singular. It has no
vocative.
Obs. — A definite noun, masculine or feminine, beginning with
a consonant, is always pluin in every case of the plural.
Am bard, mas. the poet.
Definite.
PluraL
Nom. bàird, poets.
Gen. bhàrd, of poets.
Dat. bàrdaibh, to poets.
Acc. bàird, poets.
Voc. a bhàrda, poets.
AINMEABAN CINNTEACH.
Tha ainmear tèarnte leis a'
phùngar roimhe, Cinnteach
agus ainmear gun am pùngar
roimhe, Neo-chìnnteach.
7. Sèidichidh ainmear cìnn-
teach fearanta, 'toiseachadh,
le connraig, ach c?, Z, n, r, 5,
t, an ginteach agus an doirt-
ach aonar. Cha n-'eil gair-
meach aige.
Singular.
iY. am bàrd, the poet.
G. a' bhàird, ofthe
D.f a' bhàrd, to the poet.
A. am bàrd, thepoet.
Note. — In declining the
bhàrd, or do'n bhàrd, to the
Plural.
N. na bàird, the poets.
G. nam bàrd, ofthe poets.
D. na bàrdaibh, to the poets.
A. na bàird, the poets.
singular, say always, ris a'
poet, and in the dative plural do na
bàrdaibh, to the poets. Say likewise for other nouns.
After the same manner decline bàlach, mas. a lad : bonnach,
* The Gaelic noun, like the Eng-lish noun, has no accusative form dift'erent from
the nominative, but whsn the noun becomes the object of the action of a verb, it
cannot be said that it is governed in tlie nominative. The noun in both languages
has an accusative or objective state ; tlierefore it has been found necessary to intro-
duce the term employed to descrilie it in that state.
t This case requires always a preposition before it ; as, air a' bhàrd, or do'n
bhàrd, on the poet, or to the poet. The dative case expresses no terminational
variety of' meaning in either number without a preposition expressed before it. Any
otlier shnple preposition may be used ; as, aig, as, de,fo, mu, o, &c.