substaintiúil

Irish

Etymology

From substaint +‎ -úil.

Adjective

substaintiúil (genitive singular masculine substaintiúil, genitive singular feminine substaintiúla, plural substaintiúla, comparative substaintiúla)

1. substantial

   Synonym: bunúsach

Declension

Declension of substaintiúil

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	substaintiúil	shubstaintiúil	substaintiúla; shubstaintiúla2
vocative	shubstaintiúil		substaintiúla
genitive		substaintiúla	substaintiúla	substaintiúil
dative	substaintiúil; shubstaintiúil1	shubstaintiúil	substaintiúla; shubstaintiúla2
Comparative	níos substaintiúla
Superlative	is substaintiúla

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

Mutation

Mutated forms of substaintiúil

radical	lenition	eclipsis
substaintiúil	shubstaintiúil after an, tsubstaintiúil	not applicable

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “substaintiúil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “substaintiúil”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “substaintiúil”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025