tábhachtach
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From tábhacht (“importance, significance, substance; industry, thrift”) + -ach (adjectival suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Munster) IPA(key): [ˈt̪ˠɑːxt̪ˠəx]
- (Connacht) IPA(key): [ˈt̪ˠɑːwəxt̪ˠəx]
- (Ulster) IPA(key): [ˈt̪ˠæːwəxt̪ˠa(h)]
Adjective
[edit]tábhachtach (genitive singular masculine tábhachtaigh, genitive singular feminine tábhachtaí, plural tábhachtacha, comparative tábhachtaí)
Declension
[edit]Declension of tábhachtach
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | tábhachtach | thábhachtach | tábhachtacha; thábhachtacha² | |
| Vocative | thábhachtaigh | tábhachtacha | ||
| Genitive | tábhachtaí | tábhachtacha | tábhachtach | |
| Dative | tábhachtach; thábhachtach¹ |
thábhachtach; thábhachtaigh (archaic) |
tábhachtacha; thábhachtacha² | |
| Comparative | níos tábhachtaí | |||
| Superlative | is tábhachtaí | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Synonyms
[edit]- (important): mórluachach
- (significant): suntasach
Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| tábhachtach | thábhachtach | dtábhachtach |
| 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) “tábhachtach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN