PART: particle
Description
There are many different particles in Irish:
- verbal
- surname
- vocative
- adverbial
- relative
- numeral
- comparative/superlative adjectival
Examples
- d’fhág sé “he left” (verbal)
- níor fhág sé “he didn’t leave” (negative)
- Sean O’Connell (name)
- a Sheáin “John!” (vocative)
- go cúramach “carefully” (adverbial)
- an fear a chonaic sé “the man he saw” (relative)
- a hocht “eight” (numeral)
- níos mó “bigger” (comparative)
- is mó “biggest” (superlative)
- a dhéanamh “to do” (infinitive marker)
See additional information in the Features section of the documentation. Morphological features are important for the specification of particle types. Irish makes use of a broad range of particles. It is important to differentiate these particles, because in some cases they share the same form, yet have different functions. For example, a can be a vocative particle, relative particle, infinitive particle or quantifier particle, and trigger a variety of different spelling changes (e.g. eclipsis, h-prefix or lenition).
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