Pronouns

Pronouns			Possessive Pronouns
Singular	Pronoun	emphatic	Pronoun	Before...
1st	me	mise	mo	consonants and /j/
			m’	vowels
2nd	tú	tusa	do	consonants
	thu	thusa	t’	a, o, u, /tʃ/ (before e,i)
3rd—m	e	eisean	a	consonants and /j/
		esan	[none]	vowels
		esansa
3rd—f	i	ise	a	all
		íse
		isean
		iseansa
Plural
1st	sinn	sinne	nar	all
2nd	sibh	sibhse	mur	all
3rd	éad	eadsan	an, a	all

Reflexive pronoun

fhéin (also fhé, fé) - 'self', 'own'

• me fhéin - myself
• teich fhé - flee yourself
• dithe fhé - to herself
• is geal leis an fhiach a phréachan fhéin - the raven thinks his own young is white
• le mo choir fé - through my own fault

Reciprocal pronoun

a chéile - each other

Demonstrative pronoun

1. Seo - 'this'
2. Sin - 'that'
3. Siod, úd - ''yon', 'yonder' - (úd after a noun)

Relative Pronouns

1. The relative form is used alone when it refers to an antecedent, and is the subject or direct object of the sentence, e.g.:
• duine (a) bhá coisidheacht air burd na beinne - a man who was walking on the top of the mountain
• rud ari (a) thoileochas tu - anything you like
2. Certain relative pronouns, include a general antecedent, as Engl. ' what ' (=' that which 'an', 'cibe' - which are always followed by the relative form of the verb, e.g.
• cibe thachair domh - what happened to me
• cibe rinn ise - what she did
• le cibe dhoirt ead anns an troch - with what they poured into the trough

Indefinite Pronouns

1. Substantival
• duine - a man
• chan fheil duine istoigh - nobody is in
• rud - a thing
• a h-uile rud - everything
• muinntir - people
• muinntir gheal, muinntir dhearg, muinntir ghorm, muinntir uaine - some (boxes) white, some red, some blue, some green
• duine eile - another
• muinntir eile - others
• cuid - part, some
• cuideicin, cuideiginteacht - somebody
• rud-eicin, rud-eigin, rud-eigint - something
• duine ari - anybody
• rud ari - anything
• ar bith - at all
• ariamh - ever
• h-aon, aon (instead of fear, bean) - 'one'
• corra h-aon - an odd one
• h-aon fada - a long one
• h-aon iarrain - an iron one
• an t-aon eile - the other one
• an t-aon úr - the new one
• an t-shean aon - the old one
• gach aon, a h-aon - everyone
• a h-aon aca - everyone of them
• té (rare) - 'one'
• té eileac - another
• an té mhór - the big one
• an té an sin - that one there
• cách - 'the others', 'the rest'
• comhlach le cách - along with the rest
• áthrach - 'the others', 'the rest'
• chan fheil fhios aig an áthrach air - the others do not know it
• nach do rinn sinn an t-athrach - that we did not do otherwise
2. Adjectival
1. Preceding
• h-uile - every, all
• a h-uile seorda - every kind, all kinds
• h-uile rud maith go leor - everything good
• h-uile stóras - all stores
• a h-uile car - all the time
• a h-uile gnóthach - everything
• a h-uile lá - every day
• air a h-uile cloch - on every stone
• de'n h-uile seorda - of all kinds
• uile go léir - all together
• gach - every
• as gach gábhadh - out of every danger
• as gach olc - from (all) evil
• aon - one
• an aon - the same
• an aon taobh - the same side
• bhfeil aon íota ort? - are you thirsty?
• aon luachan maith - any good prices
• iomad, iomadh (iomdha?), iomadhach - many
• iomad duine - many people
• 's ionann - the same
• 's ionann rud - it is the same thing
• An ath, an atha (an áth?) - the next
• an ath sheachtain - next week
• an ath mhíos - next month
• an ath doras - next door
• an ath bhliadhna - next year
• an atha rud a chonnaigh ead - the next thing they saw
2. Following
• Eigin, éiginteach, éigint, thaobheicean, thaobhaingte - some
• duine thaobh-eicean - somebody
• leabharan thaobh-eicean - some books
• Ar bith, ari, ariamh, duine ari - anybody
• duine ar bith - anybody at all
• rud ar bith - anything (at all)
• áite ari - any place
• uair ari - any time
• lá ari a tá e ag cur - any day it is raining
• Eile, eileac - other
• crapan eile - another potato
• le díst eile - with two others
• muinntir eile - other people
• h-aon eileac - another one
• goidé eileac? - what else?
• Céadna (not common) - same
• an duine céadna - the same man
• an t-aon céadna - the same one
• Amháin (not common) - a single
• uair amháin - once
• aon lá amháin, lá amháin - one day
• cnápan amháin - (only) one potato