Number: number
Number is an inflectional feature of nouns and other parts of speech (determiners, adjectives, prepositions, verbs, etc.) that mark agreement with nouns. Nouns may have different singular and plural forms in each case (see Form for more on the noun declensions).
Verb endings frequently synthesise to show number and person. The first person singular and plural are always synthetic, while the other paradigms (except 3rd person singular) can be synthetic depending on Mood and Tense.
Words can be either singular or plural.
Sing: singular
Examples
- duine “person”
Plur: plural
Examples
- daoine “people”
Noun forms in singular and plural for bád (“boat”), fuinneog (“window”), and am (“time”):
| Declension | Case | Singular | Plural |
| First | Nominative | bád | báid |
| First | Genitive | báid | bád |
| Second | Nominative | fuinneog | fuinneoga |
| Second | Genitive | fuinneoige | fuinneog |
| Third | Nominative | am | amanna |
| Third | Genitive | ama | ammana |
Verb Forms for deir (“say”), ól (“drink”), and imigh(“leave”):
| Person | Singular | Plural |
| 1st (present ind.) | Deirim | Deirimid |
| Ólaim | Ólaimid | |
| Imím | Imímid | |
| 2nd (imperative) | Abair | Abraigí |
| Ól | Ólaigí | |
| Imigh | Imígí | |
| 3rd (conditional) | Deirfadh sé | Deirfaidís |
| Ólfadh sé | Ólfaidís | |
| D'imfeadh sé | D'imfidís |
Adjectival agreement:
| Noun Phrase | Singular | Plural | English |
| An duine | áitiúl | "the local person" | |
| Na daoine | áitiúla | "the local people" | |
| focal | béasach | "a polite word" | |
| focail | béasacha | "polite words" |
Number in other languages: [ab] [arr] [bej] [bg] [bm] [bor] [cs] [cy] [el] [en] [es] [ess] [eu] [fi] [fr] [ga] [gn] [gub] [hbo] [hu] [hy] [it] [ka] [ky] [myv] [orv] [pcm] [ps] [pt] [qpm] [ru] [sl] [sv] [tpn] [tr] [tt] [u] [uk] [urb] [urj] [xcl]