How to form the plural in Irish

How to form the plural in Irish

You want to learn how to use the plural in Irish? You've come to the right place! Scroll down and see the short Irish lessons complete with useful examples. Apples, houses, books... we'll teach you everything you need to know about the plural in Irish.

Irish nouns - plural

The plural is used, in general, to talk about more than one object. Examples in English would be 'dogs', 'cats', 'houses' and 'children'. The plural in Irish is generally formed by means of a structural change to the noun.

Examples

cairde
friends
tithe
houses
cathaoireacha
chairs
páistí
children
doirse
doors
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Step 5 : The plural in Irish

The plural is important in Irish when you need to talk about more than one thing. Using the nouns leabhar, cathaoir and doras (book, chair, door) which you learned in Step 3, learn the plural of each of these words by heart. The plural forms are leabhair, cathaoireacha and doirse. Now learn how to use each of these Irish plural nouns with the definite article. The nouns together with the definite article are na leabhartha, na cathaoireacha and na doirse (the books, the chairs, the doors). You can scroll to the top of this page to see a short lesson about the Irish plural including useful examples. After you've learned the plural of leabhar, cathaoir and doras, you can move on to Step 6 (Irish demonstrative pronouns).

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