Plurals

Iolran

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) | truinnsear an

craobh (f) | craobh an

taigh (m) | taighe an

uinneag (f) | uinneag an

spàin (f) | spàin ean /spàin tean

lus (m) | lus an

oifis (f) | oifis ean

poit (f) poit ean

prais (f) prais ean

garaids(f) garaids ean

ADD -N | -AN | -EAN

Slenderise

slenderise

cat (m) | ca i t

curran (m) | curra i n

eun (m) | eò i n

cù (m) | c oi n

bòrd (m) | b ùi rd

bothan (m) | botha i n

gàrradh (m) | gàrra i dh ean

snèap (m) | snè i p ean

sgian (f) | sg einean

irregular form

doras (m) | dor san

pana (m) | pana ichean

càr (m) | càr aichean

bus (m) | bus aichean

flùr (m) | flùr aichean

seòmar (m) | seòm raichean

forc(a) (f) forca ichean

glainne (f) | glainne achan /glainn ichean

preas(a) (f) preas aichean