cruachás

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

crua (“hard”) +‎ cás (“case, situation”)

Noun

cruachás m (genitive singular cruacháis, nominative plural cruachásanna)

  1. predicament, miserable condition
    • 1894 March, Peadar Mac Fionnlaoigh, “An rí nach robh le fagháil bháis”, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge, volume 1:5, Dublin: Gaelic Union, pages 185–88:
      “Innseóchaidh mise dhuit cad é budh chiall dó sin,” ars an rí; “sé sin daoine a bhí ag troid ar an tsaoghal seo, ⁊ droch-theacht-le-chéile aca, agus beidh siad ins an chruadh-chás sin go dtí lá an bhreitheaṁnais.”
      "I will tell you what that means," says the king. "That signifies people who used to be fighting and at enmity with each other, and they will be in that miserable condition till the day of judgment."

Declension

Declension of cruachás (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative cruachás cruachásanna
vocative a chruacháis a chruachásanna
genitive cruacháis cruachásanna
dative cruachás cruachásanna
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an cruachás na cruachásanna
genitive an chruacháis na gcruachásanna
dative leis an gcruachás
don chruachás 		leis na cruachásanna

Mutation

Mutated forms of cruachás
radical lenition eclipsis
cruachás chruachás gcruachás

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

Further reading

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