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Caint
caint
caint
Irish
Noun
caint f (genitive singular cainte, nominative plural cainteanna)
- speech
- talking (acting as a verbal noun for a verb with no finite forms)
- Tá sé ag caint liom.
- He’s talking to me
- Tá sé ag caint liom.
Declension
Declension of caint
Second declension
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Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms
- cainteoir (“speaker”)
- mionchaint (“small talk”)
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
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| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| caint | chaint | gcaint |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||