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Níos Mó faoi na hOrduimhreacha (More on Ordinal Numbers) Posted by on Sep 15, 2011

(le Róislín) In a recent blog we looked at na horduimhreacha as they might pertain to days of the months: an chéad lá de mhí na Nollag, an ceathrú lá d’Iúil, srl.  Perhaps a little more practice with orduimhreacha wouldn’t be amiss.  For once, there are relatively few initial changes to worry about, but there…

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Díochlaontaí Arís! Posted by on Apr 24, 2011

(le Róislín) Two words that pertain to Easter conveniently fit our next category of nouns, an tríú díochlaonadh (the third declension).  One is the word “Cáisc” itself, and the other is “uaineoil.” As you may recall, before we took our “Sos Pónairí Glóthaí” and “Sos Cásca,” we had gotten through the first two declensions of…

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