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Definition 2024
tirim
tirim
Irish
Adjective
tirim (plural tirime or tiorma, comparative tirime or tiorma)
Declension
May be declined either as in table 1 (regular) or in table 2 (irregular):
- Table 1
Declension of tirim
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | tirim | thirim | tirime; thirime² |
|
| Vocative | thirim | tirime | ||
| Genitive | tirime | tirime | tirim | |
| Dative | tirim; thirim¹ |
thirim | tirime; thirime² |
|
| Comparative | níos tirime | |||
| Superlative | is tirime | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
- Table 2
Declension of tirim
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | tirim | thirim | tiorma; thiorma² |
|
| Vocative | thirim | tiorma | ||
| Genitive | tirime | tiorma | tirim | |
| Dative | tirim; thirim¹ |
thirim | tiorma; thiorma² |
|
| Comparative | níos tiorma | |||
| Superlative | is tiorma | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Derived terms
- airgead tirim (“cash”)
- casacht chrua thirim (“hacking cough”)
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| tirim | thirim | dtirim |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||