tábhachtach

Irish

Etymology

From tábhacht (“importance, significance, substance; industry, thrift”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): [ˈt̪ˠɑːxt̪ˠəx]
  • (Connacht) IPA(key): [ˈt̪ˠɑːwəxt̪ˠəx]
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): [ˈt̪ˠæːwəxt̪ˠa(h)]

Adjective

tábhachtach (genitive singular masculine tábhachtaigh, genitive singular feminine tábhachtaí, plural tábhachtacha, comparative tábhachtaí)

  1. important, significant; substantial, consequential
  2. industrious, thrifty

Declension

Declension of tábhachtach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative tábhachtach thábhachtach tábhachtacha;
thábhachtacha2
vocative thábhachtaigh tábhachtacha
genitive tábhachtaí tábhachtacha tábhachtach
dative tábhachtach;
thábhachtach1 		thábhachtach;
thábhachtaigh (archaic) 		tábhachtacha;
thábhachtacha2
Comparative níos tábhachtaí
Superlative is tábhachtaí

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

Synonyms

Mutation

Mutated forms of tábhachtach
radical lenition eclipsis
tábhachtach thábhachtach dtábhachtach

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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