DET: determiner
Description
Determiners are words that modify nouns or noun phrases and express the reference of the noun phrase in context. In Irish there are pre-determiners (preceding the noun) and post-determiners (following the noun).
Articles are pre-determiners. In Irish, there is no indefinite article, only a definite one. The definite article has two forms – singlular an and plural na.
Post-determiners occur with an article, and follow the noun. Some of these are demonstratives (seo “this; siúd “that”; sin “that”; úd “that”).
Examples
Pre-determiners
- an duine “the person”
- na daoine “the people”
Post-determiners
- an duine seo “this person”
- an duine sin “that person”
- na daoine siúd “those people”
- an duine eile “the other person”
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