Without me

Às m' eugmhais

In B1 Cuspair 15 , we talked about travelling and who would might/would travel with us.

We learned how we say ' on my own' with nam aonar and leam fhèin .

We also saw the compound preposition às aonais (without).

às eugmhais

In B1 Cuspair 15 we met the compound preposition às aonais (without).

Another, less common alternative to this is às eugmhais (without).

While you may not use this regularly yourself, at B2 level you should recognise and understand alternative and more formal forms of language like this.

As we know, we can combine compound prepositions with the possessive adjectives:

mo, do, a, a (h-), ar (n-), ur (n-), an/am .

We do this by adding the possessive adjective between the two parts of the compound preposition: às m' eugmhais (without me), às d' eugmhais (without you), às ar n-eugmhais (without us).

Like other compound prepositions, when used with a noun às eugmhais causes this to be in the genitive case: