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January 17 2004, 4:22 AM

How would you make friends plural...i know you somehow have to add chara. Do you have to aspirate it and add each????Im so confused...
Can anyone help here?

January 17 2004, 4:26 AM

Hi Feet,

Friend = cara
friends= cairde

(talking to them) Friends = a chairde
(talking about them) mo chairde = my friends

slán

January 17 2004, 15:01 PM

This is under possessive adjectives. In this case it's.

Mo chara/ chairde (sing./ pl.) My friend/ friends
Do chara/ chairde Your (sing.)
A chara/ chairde His
A cara/ cairde Her
Ar gcara/ gcairde Our
Bhur/ 'Ur gcara/ gcairde Your (plural)
A gcara/ gcairde Their

-Maidhc.

January 17 2004, 15:17 PM

Nice one Maidhc,
Small typo - fada on ár
ár gcara/gcairde = our friend/friends

January 17 2004, 15:27 PM

Maidhc wrote:This is under possessive adjectives. In this case it's.

Mo chara/ chairde (sing./ pl.) My friend/ friends
Do chara/ chairde Your (sing.)
A chara/ chairde His
A cara/ cairde Her
Ar gcara/ gcairde Our
Bhur/ 'Ur gcara/ gcairde Your (plural)
A gcara/ gcairde Their

-Maidhc.

I've never seen "Ur" b4

(except Úr)

January 17 2004, 15:40 PM

Conor wrote:I've never seen "Ur" b4 (except Úr)

It's the shortened version of bhur..

January 17 2004, 15:46 PM

Somhairle wrote:
Conor wrote:I've never seen "Ur" b4 (except Úr)

It's the shortened version of bhur..

Er..ok

i don't think it's used very much tho', is it?

January 17 2004, 15:48 PM

It's dialectal. It appears in Connacht speech. "Bhur" is the standard written form.

January 17 2004, 15:50 PM

ok - it's just i've never seen it in books/teletext/internet sites/newspapers

January 17 2004, 15:51 PM

My point is you wouldn't. It's a "spoken" form! :mrgreen:

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