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Iolran

Plurals

There are different ways to form plurals, as we saw in A1 Cuspair 4 of SpeakGaelic. Many nouns add –n | -an | -ean at the end of the word. You will also see the plural ending –(a)ichean, which is often used with short loan words from English. Other nouns slenderise their ending by adding an i or replacing a broad final vowel, in the same way we saw with the vocative and genitive case. There are also some plurals which are irregular. Try to learn the plural form and gender of words as you learn new vocabulary. You will find these in good dictionaries.

Here are the plural forms of some of the vocabulary we’ve looked at:

ADD -N | -AN | -EAN

truinnsear (m) | truinnsearan

craobh (f) | craobhan

taigh (m) | taighean

uinneag (f) | uinneagan

spàin (f) | spàinean/spàintean

lus (m) | lusan

oifis (f) | oifisean

poit (f) poitean

prais (f) praisean

garaids(f) garaidsean

ADD -N | -AN | -EAN

truinnsear (m) | truinnsearan

craobh (f) | craobhan

taigh (m) | taighean

uinneag (f) | uinneagan

spàin (f) | spàinean/spàintean

lus (m) | lusan

oifis (f) | oifisean

poit (f) | poitean

prais (f) | praisean

garaids (f) | garaidsean

Slenderise

slenderise

cat (m) | cait

curran (m) | currain

eun (m) | eòin

cù (m) | coin

bòrd (m) | bùird

bothan (m) | bothain

gàrradh (m) | gàrraidhean

snèap (m) | snèipean

sgian (f) | sgeinean

cat (m) | cait

curran (m) | currain

eun (m) | eòin

cù (m) | coin

bòrd (m) | bùird

bothan (m) | bothain

gàrradh (m) | gàrraidhean

snèap (m) | snèipean

sgian (f) | sgeinean

irregular form

doras (m) | dorsan

pana (m) | panaichean

càr (m) | càraichean

bus (m) | busaichean

flùr (m) | flùraichean

seòmar (m) | seòmraichean

forc(a) (f) forcaichean

glainne (f) | glainneachan/glainnichean

preas(a) (f) preasaichean

doras (m) | dorsan

pana (m) | panaichean

càr (m) | càraichean

bus (m) | busaichean

flùr (m) | flùraichean

seòmar (m) | seòmraichean

forc(a) (f) | forcaichean

glainne (f) | glainneachan/glainnichean

preas(a) (f) | preasaichean