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Cardinal: dó Ordinal: dara, dóú Personal: beirt, dís Attributive: dhá |
From Old Irish dá, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁.
dhá (triggers lenition)
- two
Tá dhá charr aige
- He has two cars
- dhá dóibh ― two of them (non-personal)
Bheadh sé níos fearr dá bhféadfadh dhá de na rudaí ag deighilt
- It would be better if two of the things could be separated
- Used before nouns; dó is used when free-standing (counting, telling a row of numerals, etc). The following noun is in the singular nominative (or, in the few cases where distinct duals have survived, the dual nominative (e.g. dhá bhróig – "two shoes")) and is almost always lenited; the sole exception is with the third-person possessive determiner a, which triggers mutation as if the dhá simply was not there:
- a dhá chapall ― his two horses (lenition)
- a dhá húll ― her two apples (h-prothesis)
- a dhá dteach ― their two houses (eclipsis)
- When used with adjectives, the adjective is always in the nominative plural and is lenited by default:
dhá bhád mhóra
- two big boats
dhá mhadra dhubha
- two black dogs
dhá amhrán ghearra
- two short songs
- The alternative form dá is used after the definite article (which is always in the singular and is always an, even with feminine nouns in the genitive), aon ("any"), and céad ("first"):
an dá leabhar
- the two books
teangacha an dá thír
- the two countries' languages
an chéad dá bhliain
- the first two years
- When referring to human beings, the personal form beirt is used.
Lenited form of dá.
dhá
- Alternative form of dá
dhá
- Alternative form of dá
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 215, page 110
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 285, page 101
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “dhá”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dá”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language