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Irish is an inflected language, having four cases: ainmneach (nominative and accusative), gairmeach , ginideach and tabharthach (prepositional). The prepositional case is called the dative by convention. Irish nouns are masculine or feminine.
There are other set idiomatic phrases using the copula, as seen in the following examples. Here the predicate consists mostly of either a prepositional phrase or an adjective. (38a) Is maith liom "I like" (lit. "is good with me") (38b) Ba mhaith liom "I would like" (lit. "would be good with me") (38c) Is fearr liom "I prefer" (lit. "is better ...
In linguistics, an inflected preposition is a type of word that occurs in some languages, that corresponds to the combination of a preposition and a personal pronoun.For instance, the Welsh word iddo (/ɪðɔ/) is an inflected form of the preposition i meaning "to/for him"; it would not be grammatically correct to say * i ef.
In Old Irish, the process was already grammatical to a large degree, and was limited to applying across words within a single syntactic phrase (e.g. between a noun and a modifying adjective, or between a preposition and the rest of the prepositional phrase).
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For example, the English prepositional phrase with (his) foot (as in "John kicked the ball with his foot") might be rendered in Russian using a single noun in the instrumental case, or in Ancient Greek as τῷ ποδί (tôi podí, meaning "the foot") with both words (the definite article, and the noun πούς (poús) "foot") changing to ...
In Scottish Gaelic and Irish, the term dative case is used in traditional grammars to refer to the prepositional case-marking of nouns following simple prepositions and the definite article. In Georgian and Hindustani ( Hindi - Urdu ), the dative case can also mark the subject of a sentence. [ 1 ]
conjugated prepositions (traditionally called "prepositional pronouns"): complex forms historically derived from the fusion of a preposition + pronoun sequence (see Prepositions below) prepositional constructions for expressing possession and ownership (instead of a verb like English have): Tha taigh agam "I have a house" (lit. "A house is at me")