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Possession - How to Own Items
In Irish there are multiple ways to show ownership of an item. Today we’re going to look at two of them:
· Posession using pronouns ie “my, your, hers”
o Mo charr, my car. Bhur gcat, y’all’s cat
o These personal posessive pronouns (my, your, their, etc) cause initial mutation in the nouns that follow the posessive pronoun- so after my, yours, et cetera, the noun following that gets changed.
§ Séimhiú you already know, used for singular posession. Séimhiú is only added on some consonants, rememer: b, c, d, f, g, m, p, s, t
· Mo- my
· Do- your
· A- his
§ Hers, “a”, does not use séimhiú or úru…
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