Making Plurals Rule #4

 Rule # 4 for Creating Plurals:

• Change ia of the nominative singular to ei

Examples  (there are relatively few of these):

• fiadh, fèidh  (FEE-ugh, FAY-ee) deer, deer(s)
• riadh, rèidh interest  (REE-ugh, RAY-ee) interest, interests (financial)
• riasg, rèisg   (REE-usk, RAY-isk) coarse grass or peat moss, grasses and mosses
• iasg, èisg  (EE-usk, AY-isk) fish, fishes

Try using these and previous plurals in sentences using verbs and prepositions you have learned.  Use them with aon and dà, using the correct lenition, and with all the other numbers.

Review of the previous methods of creating plurals:

• Substitute i for the last broad vowel (a, o, u) or for ea in the nominative singular.
• each, eich 
• fear, fir 
• coibhneas, coibhneis   
• ceann, cinn   
• place i after the last broad vowel (a, o, or u)
•  òran, òrain
• add an (or ean if the last vowel is e or i)
• torman, tormanan
• tonn, tonnan

Review on numbers in general:

•  a h-aon, a dhà, a trì, a ceithir, a còig, a sia, a seachd, a h-ochd, a naoi, a deich. 
• When using numbers with a noun, drop the a’s and h‘s
• aon lenites its following noun starting with all letters except l, n, r, d, t, s, and vowels
• dhà/dà:
• dhà is free-standing, dà is used before nouns. 
• nouns following dhà/dà take their dative, singular, lenited form 

Tomorrow: a review of the four methods of pluralization learned so far, and counting in the teens.

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