ceathair

Irish

**Irish numbers ^(edit)**
	40^{[a], [b], [c]}
← 3	4	5 →
Cardinal: ceathair Ordinal: ceathrú Ordinal abbreviation: 4ú Personal: ceathrar Attributive: ceithre

ceathair

This form is used independently, not with a noun that it modifies. It is always preceded by the particle a.
- a ceathair, a cúig, a sé... ― four, five, six...
- deich a ceathair, deich a cúig, deich a sé... ― fourteen, fifteen, sixteen...
- bus a ceathair ― bus number four
- a ceathair a chlog ― four o’clock

Mutated forms of *ceathair*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
ceathair	cheathair	gceathair

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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