Poss: possessive
Possessive is a feature of prepositions and determiners in Irish. Possessive prepositions can inflect to show person and number. Possessive determiners cause morphological changes in the noun they are dependent on.
Yes: possessive
The following table describes the determiners and the morphological changes they cause.
| Determiner | Before consonant | Before vowel | Ex: cóta "coat" | Ex: athair "father" | |
| 1st sing | mo | lenition | no change | mo chóta | m' athair |
| 2nd sing | do | lenition | no change | do chóta | d' athair |
| 3rd sing masc | a | lenition | no change | a chóta | a athair |
| 3rd sing fem | a | no change | h-prefix | a cóta | a hathair |
| 1st pl | ár | eclipsis | eclipsis | ár gcóta | ár n-athair |
| 2nd pl | bhur | eclipsis | eclipsis | bhur gcóta | bhur n-athair |
| 3rd pl | a | eclipsis | eclipsis | a gcóta | a n-athair |
Certain prepositions (e.g. faoi “under”, i “in”, le “with”) in Irish can absorb the possessive determiners to become possessive prepositions. For instance, le + ár becomes lenár. The noun attached to the prepostion will inflect accordingly.
Examples:
- ina chorpán “in his body”
- ina cónaí “she lives in (lit. in her dwelling)”
- ina gcónaí “they live in (lit. in their dwelling)”
Poss in other languages: [arr] [bej] [bg] [cs] [cy] [el] [en] [es] [ga] [gn] [gub] [hy] [it] [jaa] [ka] [myu] [pcm] [qpm] [ru] [sl] [sv] [tpn] [u] [uk] [urj] [xcl]