tapúil
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
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Adjective
[edit]tapúil (genitive singular masculine tapúil, genitive singular feminine tapúla, plural tapúla, comparative tapúla)
Declension
[edit]Declension of tapúil
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | tapúil | thapúil | tapúla; thapúla² | |
| Vocative | thapúil | tapúla | ||
| Genitive | tapúla | tapúla | tapúil | |
| Dative | tapúil; thapúil¹ |
thapúil | tapúla; thapúla² | |
| Comparative | níos tapúla | |||
| Superlative | is tapúla | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| tapúil | thapúil | dtapúil |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tapúil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN