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Definition 2025
acarach
acarach
Irish
Adjective
acarach (genitive singular masculine acaraigh, genitive singular feminine acaraí, plural acaracha, comparative acaraí)
- Alternative form of acrach (“handy, useful; convenient”)
Declension
Declension of acarach
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | acarach | acarach¹ | acaracha³ | |
| Vocative | acaraigh¹ | acarach¹ | acaracha | |
| Genitive | acaraigh¹ | acaraí (obsolete) acaraighe |
acaracha | acarach |
| Dative | acarach² | acarach¹ (archaic) acaraigh¹ |
acaracha³ | |
| Comparative | acaraí (obsolete) acaraighe |
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¹ This form is lenited after a noun if possible.
² This form is lenited if possible when the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
³ This form is lenited if possible when the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Mutation
| Irish mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| acarach | n-acarach | hacarach | t-acarach |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
References
- "acarach" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.