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Xote 3.—Feminine Nouns in a Vowel insert h between
the Article and the Noun in the Genitive Singular and the
Nominative and Dative Plural, as—Uisge na h-aimhne, the
water of the river ; Na h-aimhnichean, the rivers.
Vocabulary.
Airson (with Genitive), for. Leabhar (f.), a book.
Cota (m.), a coat. Seomar (m.), a room.
Fuaim (m.), sound. Bruth (m.), a stream.
Exercise 7.
Cridhe fe61a. Tha leabhraichean (Lesson IV., Exception
1.) an duine air a bhord anns an t-seomar. Tlia solus an
latha maith airson nan sill. Anns na h-oibre mora.
Dia nan aithrichean. Gridhe na duthcha. Bha an t-uairea-
dair a deanamh fuaim mor. Tha na h-uaireadairean ann an
cota an duine. Tha cotaichean (Plural) air na daoine anns
a chathair. Na h-aimhnichean fada. Fuaim an t-sruth.
Exercise 8.
The sound of the river. In the eye. The water of the
river is good. On the waters. The dog was in the stream.
The man was at the city with the books. A dogs' fight.
The floods are making a noise. The man's coat is on the
chair at the table. The alteration was great. The father's
heart and the hearts of the sons.
VI.—THE GENDER OF NOUNS.
The following classes are usually
Masculine:—
1. Nouns signifying males, as—Fear, a man.
2. Diminutives in an, as—Bordan, a little table.
3. Derivatives, for the most part agents, in ach, air, and
iclie, as—Albannach, a Scotchman, uaireadair, a timepiece,
oibriche, a workman.
4. Derivatives, usually abstract Nouns, in as, as—Maii-
heas, goodness.