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Gaelic uses possessive determiners (corresponding to my, your, their, etc.) differently from English. In Gaelic, possessive determiners are used mostly to indicate inalienable possession, for example for body parts or family members. As indicated in the following table, some possessive determiners lenite the following word.
the possessive pronouns mo "my" and do "your (singular)" become m' and d' before a vowel or fh + vowel, as in m'óige "my youth", d'fhiacail "your tooth" the preverbal particle do becomes d' before a vowel or fh + vowel, as in d'ardaigh mé "I raised", d'fhanfadh sé "he would wait"
Similarly, if the object of the verbal noun is a pronoun, then it is a possessive pronoun: Tá sé á phlé. "He's discussing it." (lit.: He is at its (i.e. the bicycle's) discussing) More examples: Tá sí do mo bhualadh. "She's hitting me." Tá siad do do phlé. "They are discussing you." Tá sé á pógadh. "He's kissing her." Tá tú dár ...
A Irish language sign which displays an inflected form of the word Caisleán "castle" with a mutated c . Irish, like all modern Celtic languages, is characterised by its initial consonant mutations. [1] These mutations affect the initial consonant of a word under specific morphological and syntactic conditions. The mutations are an important ...
Class B pronouns are used after preverbs historically ending in consonants. They are characterized by starting with /d/, spelled as t or d (the forms beginning with t in the below table can also be sometimes spelled with d) and their irregular fusions with their preverbs. Class C pronouns are used with verbs within a nasalized subordinate clause.
aa, baa, caa for words like aw, baw, caw – this was later discouraged-ie for final unstressed -y; y for the /əi/ sound in words like wynd and mynd, and i for the short /ɪ/ sound in words like wind and find. ui for the /ø/ sound in words like guid; ou for the /uː/ sound in words like nou and hou; ow(e) for the /ʌu/ sound in words like ...
Some authors who classify both sets of words as "possessive pronouns" or "genitive pronouns" apply the terms dependent/independent [7] or weak/strong [8] to refer, respectively, to my, your, etc., and mine, yours, etc. For example, under that scheme, my is termed a dependent possessive pronoun and mine an independent possessive pronoun.
The corresponding pronoun is often dropped in the spoken language, fy mara (my bread), dy fara (your bread), ei fara (his bread) and ei bara (her bread). The possessive adjective fy is most often heard as 'yn or 'y followed by the mutated noun. For example, bara ('bread') would likely be heard as 'y mara ('my bread').