Le (preposition) - Revision history

AndrewCarnie: fixing reference error

2025-06-28T03:50:11Z

fixing reference error

2012-08-06T15:05:35Z

‎uses

2012-07-31T21:05:32Z

‎uses

2012-07-31T19:26:18Z

‎uses

2012-07-31T19:16:59Z

‎Possessive inflected forms:

2012-07-31T19:14:27Z

‎Emphatic Inflected forms

2012-07-31T19:13:27Z

‎Forms

2012-07-31T18:45:14Z

‎Possessive inflected forms:

2012-07-29T17:04:56Z

‎Possessive inflected forms:

2012-07-29T17:04:31Z

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 ===Basic inflected forms===
-Like most prepositions, ''air'' can be inflected for [[Person (definition)|person]], [[number (definition)|number]], and [[Gender (definition)|gender]]. For example, to say "on me", we use the single word ''orm''.
+Like most prepositions, ''air'' can be inflected for [[Person (definition)|person]], [[number (definition)|number]], and [[Gender (definition)|gender]]. For example, to say "with me", we use the single word ''leam''.
 <TABLE columns="4" border=1 cellpadding=2, rules="all">

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 ==uses==
-Is doigh leam  "I like"
+Is toigh leam  "I like"
 To express ownership:  Cò leis a tha am bata "who owns the stick"

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 ==uses==
 Is doigh leam  "I like"
 ==see also==

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 <TR><TH>Fem<TD>le a<sup>H</sup>
 </TABLE>
-Note: ''lem'' is used instead of an "len" in front of words beginning with the [[labial (definition)|labial]] [[Consonant (definition)|consonants]] <m, b, p,  f>
+Note: ''lem'' is used instead of  "len" in front of words beginning with the [[labial (definition)|labial]] [[Consonant (definition)|consonants]] <m, b, p,  f>
 ==uses==

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 ===Emphatic Inflected forms===
-Special emphatic forms are used if we want to emphasize the pronoun in the inflected preposition. (e.g. ormsa "on **me**")
+Special emphatic forms are used if we want to emphasize the pronoun in the inflected preposition. (e.g. lean-sa "with **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>leamsa<TD>leinn-ne
+<TR><TH colspan="2">1st<TD>leam-sa<TD>leinn-ne
 <TR><TH colspan="2">2nd<TD>leat-sa<TD>leibh-se
 <TR><TH rowspan="2">3rd<TH>Masc<TD>leis-san<TD rowspan="2">leotha-san
 <TR><TH>Fem<TD>leatha-se
 </TABLE>
 ===Possessive inflected forms:===

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 <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>X<sup>L</sup><TD>X<sup>N</sup>
+<TR><TH colspan="2">1st<TD>lem<sup>L</sup><TD>ler<sup>N</sup>
-<TR><TH colspan="2">2nd<TD>X<sup>L</sup><TD>X<sup>N</sup> / X<sup>N</sup>
+<TR><TH colspan="2">2nd<TD>led<sup>L</sup><TD>lur<sup>N</sup>
-<TR><TH rowspan="2">3rd<TH>Masc<TD>X<sup>L</sup><TD rowspan="2">X<sup>N</sup>
+<TR><TH rowspan="2">3rd<TH>Masc<TD>le a<sup>L</sup><TD rowspan="2">len<sup>N</sup>
-<TR><TH>Fem<TD>X<sup>H</sup>
+<TR><TH>Fem<TD>le a<sup>H</sup>
 </TABLE>
-Note: ''am'' is used instead of an "their" in front of words beginning with the [[labial (definition)|labial]] [[Consonant (definition)|consonants]] <m, b, p,  f>
+Note: ''lem'' is used instead of an "len" in front of words beginning with the [[labial (definition)|labial]] [[Consonant (definition)|consonants]] <m, b, p,  f>
 ==uses==

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-''le'' means ''with''
+''le'' means ''with'' or sometimes ''by''
-==uses==
+==Forms==
-==forms & inflection ==
+<TABLE columns="4" border=1 cellpadding=2, rules="all">
-Before articles it takes the form ''leis'' as in ''leis a' pheann''
+==uses==
 ==see also==