Tansánach

Irish

Etymology

From an Tansáin (Tanzania) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

Tansánach (genitive singular masculine Tansánaigh, genitive singular feminine Tansánaí, plural Tansánacha, not comparable)

  1. Tanzanian

Declension

Declension of Tansánach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative Tansánach Thansánach Tansánacha;
Thansánacha2
vocative Thansánaigh Tansánacha
genitive Tansánaí Tansánacha Tansánach
dative Tansánach;
Thansánach1
Thansánach;
Thansánaigh (archaic)
Tansánacha;
Thansánacha2
Comparative níos Tansánaí
Superlative is Tansánaí

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

Noun

Tansánach m (genitive singular Tansánaigh, nominative plural Tansánaigh)

  1. Tanzanian

Declension

Declension of Tansánach (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative Tansánach Tansánaigh
vocative a Thansánaigh a Thansánacha
genitive Tansánaigh Tansánach
dative Tansánach Tansánaigh
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an Tansánach na Tansánaigh
genitive an Tansánaigh na dTansánach
dative leis an Tansánach
don Tansánach
leis na Tansánaigh

Mutation

Mutated forms of Tansánach
radical lenition eclipsis
Tansánach Thansánach dTansánach

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

Further reading

  • Tansánach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025