Às (preposition)

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Gaelic preposition, meaning roughly "out of", "away from" or "from". It governs the dative case, and does not usually trigger lenition on following indefinite nouns.


Simple forms

  • bare form: à 'on a'
  • before vowels: "às"
  • definite form: às an 'on the'.

Basic inflected forms

Like most prepositions, à can be inflected for person, number, and gender. For example, to say "out of me", we use the single word asam.

singularplural
1stasamasainn
2ndasadasaibh
3rdMascàsasta
Femaiste


Emphatic Inflected forms

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

singularplural
1stasam-saasainn-ne
2ndasad-saasaibh-se
3rdMascàs-sanasta-san
Femaiste-se


Possessive inflected forms:

No Special forms are used for possessives. (Mark 2004:20)

singularplural
1stà moLàs arN
2ndà doLà bhurN / às urN
3rdMascàs aLàs anN
Femàs aH

am is used instead of an "their" in front of words beginning with the labial consonants <b>, <p>, <m>, and <f>


References

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


Notes

In this document, as elsewhere, L indicates Lenition and N 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 H indicates Antilenition (the prefixation of h before words beginning with vowels).