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Irish emphatic suffixes
Person | After a broad consonant | After a slender consonant |
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1 sg. | -sa | -se |
2 sg. | ||
3 sg. m. | -san | -sean |
3 sg. f. | -sa | -se |
1 pl. | -na | -ne -e (after nn in pronouns) |
2 pl. | -sa | -se |
3 pl. | -san | -sean |
Emphatic suffixes are added to nouns modified by a possessive determiner to emphasize the possessor; to verbs, predicate adjectives, and predicate nouns to emphasize the subject; and to inflected prepositions to emphasize the object. |