lenarb

Irish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Particle

lenarb (form used before a consonant lenar)Category:Irish lemmas#LENARBCategory:Irish particles#LENARBCategory:Irish entries with incorrect language header#LENARBCategory:Pages with entries#LENARBCategory:Pages with 1 entry#LENARB (used before a vowel sound)

  1. with which/whom is
    páiste lenarb eagal go dtiocfaidh robálaí sa teacha child who is afraid that a robber will come into the houseCategory:Irish terms with usage examples#LENARB

Usage notes

Especially in the spoken language, it is more common to use the indirect relative particle ar with a resumptive prepositional pronoun:

páiste arb eagal leis go dtiocfaidh robálaí sa teacha child who is afraid that a robber will come into the houseCategory:Irish terms with usage examples#LENARB
Irish copular forms
simple copular forms
present/futureaffirmativenegativeinterrogativenegative
interrogative
main clause isannach
relative clause direct nach
indirect ar, arbv
other subordinate clause gur, gurbvannach
past/conditionalaffirmativenegativeinterrogativenegative
interrogative
main clause ba, b’vníor, níorbhvar, arbhvnár, nárbhv
relative clause direct ba, abv nár, nárbhv
indirect ar, arbhv
other subordinate clause gur, gurbhvar, arbhvnár, nárbhv
present subjunctiveaffirmativenegative
gura, gurabvnára, nárabv
compound copular forms
base wordpresent/futurepast/conditional
cár, cárbvcár, cárbhv
cér, cérbvcér, cérbhv
mba, mb’v
de/do dar, darbvdar, darbhv
faoi faoinar, faoinarbvfaoinar, faoinarbhv
i inar, inarbvinar, inarbhv
le lenar, lenarbvlenar, lenarbhv
más ba, b’v
mura mura, murabvmurar, murarbhv
ó (preposition) ónar, ónarbvónar, ónarbhv
ó (conjunction) ósó ba, ó b’v
trí trínar, trínarbvtrínar, trínarbhv

v Used before vowel sounds

Irish preposition contractions
contracted with copular forms
base form an (the sg)na (the pl)mo (my)do (your)a (his, her, their; which (present))ár (our)ar (which (past))before a consonantbefore a vowel
present/future past/conditional
de (from) dende na
desna*
de mo
dem*
de do
ded*, det*
dárdardarbdarbh
do (to, for) dondo na
dosna*
do mo
dom*
do do
dod*, dot*
dárdardarbdarbh
faoi (under, about) faoinfaoi nafaoi mofaoi dofaoinafaoinár faoinarfaoinarbfaoinarbh
i (in) sa, sansnai mo
im*
i do
id*, it*
inainár inarinarbinarbh
le (with) leis anleis nale mo
lem*
le do
led*, let*
lenalenár lenarlenarblenarbh
ó (from, since) ónó na
ósna*
ó mo
óm*
ó do
ód*, ót*
ónaónár ónarónarbónarbh
trí (through) tríd antrí natrí motrí dotrínatrínár trínartrínarbtrínarbh

*dialectal

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