focalbháiteach

Irish

Etymology

From focalbhá (“ellipsis”) +‎ -ach.

Adjective

focalbháiteach (genitive singular masculine focalbháitigh, genitive singular feminine focalbháití, plural focalbháiteacha, comparative focalbháití)

  1. (grammar, rhetoric) elliptical

Declension

Declension of focalbháiteach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative focalbháiteach fhocalbháiteach focalbháiteacha;
fhocalbháiteacha2
vocative fhocalbháitigh focalbháiteacha
genitive focalbháití focalbháiteacha focalbháiteach
dative focalbháiteach;
fhocalbháiteach1 		fhocalbháiteach;
fhocalbháitigh (archaic) 		focalbháiteacha;
fhocalbháiteacha2
Comparative níos focalbháití
Superlative is focalbháití

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 focalbháiteach
radical lenition eclipsis
focalbháiteach fhocalbháiteach bhfocalbháiteach

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

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