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seachtain

seachtain

Irish

Alternative forms

seachtmhain (obsolete)

Noun

seachtain f ‎(genitive singular seachtaine, nominative plural seachtainí)

week
- 1906, E. C. Quiggin, “Áindrías an Ime”, in A Dialect of Donegal: Being the Speech of Meenawannia in the Parish of Glenties, page 196:
  
  Seachtmhain roimhe Shamhain chuaidh an Seónstanach siar ⁊ seacht ngearráin ⁊ péire cliabh air ghach gearrán fá choinne a chuid ime.
  A week before Samhain, Johnstone went back with seven geldings and a pair of panniers on each gelding for his butter.

Declension

Declension of seachtain

Second declension

Bare forms

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	seachtain	seachtainí
Vocative	a sheachtain	a sheachtainí
Genitive	seachtaine	seachtainí
Dative	seachtain	seachtainí

Forms with the definite article

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an tseachtain	na seachtainí
Genitive	na seachtaine	na seachtainí
Dative	leis an tseachtain don tseachtain	leis na seachtainí

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
seachtain	sheachtain after an, tseachtain	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.