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trínar
trínar
Irish
Particle
trínar (form used before non-past tenses trína) (used before a past tense; triggers lenition of a following consonant except in the autonomous form)
Usage notes
Especially in the spoken language, it is more common to use the indirect relative particle ar with a resumptive prepositional pronoun:
- an doras ar chuaigh mé isteach tríd ― the door I went in through
Particle
trínar (form used before a vowel in the present/future trínarb, form used before a vowel in the past/conditional trínarbh) (used before a consonant sound; triggers lenition in the past/conditional)
- through which/whom is
- an seomra trínar mian liom siúl ― the room through which I want to walk
- through which/whom was/would be
- tír trínar mhaith liom taisteal ― a country through which I would like to travel
Usage notes
Here again, it is more common, especially in the spoken language, to use the indirect relative particle ar with a resumptive prepositional pronoun:
- an seomra ar mian liom siúl tríd ― the room I want to walk through
- tír ar mhaith liom taisteal tríthi ― a country I would like to travel through
Related terms
Irish copular forms
Simple copular forms
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Compound copular forms
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Irish preposition contractions
| Basic form | Contracted with | Copular forms | ||||||||
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| an (“the sg”) | na (“the pl”) | mo (“my”) | do (“your”) | a (“his, her, their; which (present)”) | ár (“our”) | ar (“which (past)”) | (before consonant) | (present/future before vowel) | (past/conditional before vowel) | |
| de (“from”) | den | de na desna* |
de mo dem* |
de do ded*, det* |
dá | dár | dar | darb | darbh | |
| do (“to, for”) | don | do na dosna* |
do mo dom* |
do do dod*, dot* |
dá | dár | dar | darb | darbh | |
| faoi (“under, about”) | faoin | faoi na | faoi mo | faoi do | faoina | faoinár | faoinar | faoinarb | faoinarbh | |
| i (“in”) | sa, san | sna | i mo im* |
i do id*, it* |
ina | inár | inar | inarb | inarbh | |
| le (“with”) | leis an | leis na | le mo lem* |
le do led*, let* |
lena | lenár | lenar | lenarb | lenarbh | |
| ó (“from, since”) | ón | ó na ósna* |
ó mo óm* |
ó do ód*, ót* |
óna | ónár | ónar | ónarb | ónarbh | |
| trí (“through”) | tríd an | trí na | trí mo | trí do | trína | trínár | trínar | trínarb | trínarbh | |
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