béarúil
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]béarúil (genitive singular masculine béarúil, genitive singular feminine béarúla, plural béarúla, comparative béarúla)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
nominative | béarúil | bhéarúil | béarúla; bhéarúla2 | |
vocative | bhéarúil | béarúla | ||
genitive | béarúla | béarúla | béarúil | |
dative | béarúil; bhéarúil1 |
bhéarúil | béarúla; bhéarúla2 | |
Comparative | níos béarúla | |||
Superlative | is béarúla |
1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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béarúil | bhéarúil | mbéarúil |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “béarúil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “bearish”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025