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vocative: vocative

The vocative relation is used to mark a dialogue participant addressed in text (common in conversations, emails and newsgroup postings). The relation links the addressee’s name to its host sentence. Discourse markers in Irish usually precede lenited personal names or titles.

Examples:

Slán leat, a Mhichíl ghrinn. `Goodbye , my funny Michael.’

Is dóigh liom a Mháiréad, go bhfuil mé i ngrá leat `I think Mairead, that I’m in love with you’

‘Tá eagla orm, a fheara,’ arsa Fionn, ‘go mbeidh an ceo so an-dhorcha’. ‘I’m afraid, my man,’ said Fionn, ‘that this fog will be very dark’.


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