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le means with or sometimes by

Forms

Simple forms

bare form: le 'with a' definite form: leis an 'with the'

Basic inflected forms

Like most prepositions, air can be inflected for person, number, and gender. For example, to say "on me", we use the single word orm.

Emphatic Inflected forms

Special emphatic forms are used if we want to emphasize the pronoun in the inflected preposition. (e.g. lean-sa "with **me**")

Possessive inflected forms:

Note: lem is used instead of "len" in front of words beginning with the labial consonants <m, b, p, f>

uses

Is doigh leam "I like"

To express ownership: Cò leis a tha am bata "who owns the stick"

see also

References