foshuiteach

Irish

Etymology

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Adjective

foshuiteach (genitive singular masculine foshuitigh, genitive singular feminine foshuití, plural foshuiteacha, not comparable)

1. (grammar) subjunctive

Declension

Declension of foshuiteach

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	foshuiteach	fhoshuiteach	foshuiteacha; fhoshuiteacha2
vocative	fhoshuitigh		foshuiteacha
genitive		foshuití	foshuiteacha	foshuiteach
dative	foshuiteach; fhoshuiteach1	fhoshuiteach; fhoshuitigh (archaic)	foshuiteacha; fhoshuiteacha2
Comparative	(not comparable)
Superlative	(not comparable)

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Noun

foshuiteach m (genitive singular foshuitigh)

1. (grammar) subjunctive

Declension

Declension of foshuiteach (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative foshuiteach vocative a fhoshuitigh genitive foshuitigh dative foshuiteach forms with the definite article case singular nominative an foshuiteach genitive an fhoshuitigh dative leis an bhfoshuiteach don fhoshuiteach

Mutation

Mutated forms of foshuiteach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
foshuiteach	fhoshuiteach	bhfoshuiteach

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “foshuiteach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “subjunctive”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “foshuiteach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm