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*''For other prepositions see [[prepositions]]''

The preposition ann primarily means "in" although it has some secondary usages marking [[Statives|stative]] constructions, occupations and professions,  as well as being used as the word meaning "there" in [[existentials]], and the [[augment]] found with predicate clefts. Unlike most prepositions, ann does not lenite but takes the [[dative]].


==Forms==
===Simple forms===

*bare form: ''ann'' 'on'
*indefinite form: ''ann an''  'in a' (note that the ''an'' here is NOT the definite determiner. It's a reduplication of the "in" preposition)
*definite form: ''anns an'' 'in the' (also ''anns a''', ''anns na'' etc.)


===Basic inflected forms===

Like most prepositions, ''ann'' can be inflected for [[person]], [[number]], and [[gender]]. For example, to say "in me", we use the single word ''annam''.

<TABLE columns="4" border=1 cellpadding=2, rules="all">
<TR><TH colspan="2"><TH colspan="1">singular<TH colspan="1">plural
<TR><TH colspan="2">1st<TD>annam<TD>annainn
<TR><TH colspan="2">2nd<TD>annad<TD>annaibh
<TR><TH rowspan="2">3rd<TH>Masc<TD>ann<TD rowspan="2">annta
<TR><TH>Fem<TD>innte
</TABLE>


===Emphatic Inflected forms===

Special emphatic forms are used if we want to emphasize the pronoun in the inflected preposition. (e.g. ormsa "on ME")

<TABLE columns="4" border=1 cellpadding=2, rules="all">
<TR><TH colspan="2"><TH colspan="1">singular<TH colspan="1">plural
<TR><TH colspan="2">1st<TD>annamsa<TD>annainne
<TR><TH colspan="2">2nd<TD>annadsa<TD>annaibhsa
<TR><TH rowspan="2">3rd<TH>Masc<TD>annsan<TD rowspan="2">anntasan
<TR><TH>Fem<TD>inntese
</TABLE>


===Possessive inflected forms:===

Special forms are used for possessives. They are particularly frequently used in stative constructions (Mark 2004:20)

<TABLE columns="4" border=1 cellpadding=2, rules="all">
<TR><TH colspan="2"><TH colspan="1">singular<TH colspan="1">plural
<TR><TH colspan="2">1st<TD>nam<sup>L</sup><TD>nar<sup>N</sup>
<TR><TH colspan="2">2nd<TD>nad<sup>L</sup><TD>nur<sup>N</sup> 
<TR><TH rowspan="2">3rd<TH>Masc<TD>na<sup>L</sup><TD rowspan="2">nan<sup>N</sup>
<TR><TH>Fem<TD>na<sup>H</sup>
</TABLE>
''nam'' is used instead of nan "their" in front of words beginning with the [[Labial (definition)|labial]] [[Consonant (definition)|consonants]] <nowiki><b>, <p>, <m>, and <f></nowiki>

==Uses==

==References==
Mark, Colin (2004) ''The Gaelic-English Dictionary/Am Faclair Gàidhlig-Beurla.'' London: Routledge


==Notes==
In this document, as elsewhere, <sup>L</sup> indicates [[lenition]] and <sup>N</sup> indicates [[eclipsis]], (prefixation of an n- before a word beginning with vowels, and a nasalization of the next consonant (not indicated in the orthography) and <sup>H</sup> indicates [[antilenition]] (the prefixation of h before words beginning with vowels).

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