cén fáth 'ar bord eitleáin'??

pog it

ok folks.. I'm wondering what is the rule for how the noun that goes after something like 'ar bord' is affected.
On board a plane is 'ar bord eitleáin'.. so why does the eitleán get slenderised?

seaner

'ar bord eitleáin' literally means on board of an aeroplane. Eitleán becomes eitleáin because its in its genetive....i.e. eitleáin = of an aeroplane.

I could be wrong, but thats what I think anyway!

seaner

actually i just looked up the plural and genetive of aeroplane and they're both eitleáin...so it could just mean...on board aeroplanes.

Múinteoir

It's the genetive case, alright.

Múinteoir

seaner wrote: »

actually i just looked up the plural and genetive of aeroplane and they're both eitleáin...so it could just mean...on board aeroplanes.

If it was to be 'on board aeroplanes' it would revert to the nominative singular form, since it is a weak plural i.e.

On board an aeroplane - ar bord eitleáin

On board aeroplanes - ar bord eitleán ( in the same manner as Leithreas na bhFear etc.)

pog it

cheers muinteoir.

Something else that may be helpful to someone that just dawned on me is that ar bord is actually a compound preposition i.e made up of preposition and noun and the noun following compound prepositions will go into the genitive, either genitive singular or genitive plural, depending on what the noun is.

Weeeee!

FlutterinBantam

Literal translation would be "On the board of the airplane "

gen case ,as said earlier is correct.

masc. noun so no"na" in front.

Ends in a broad vowel.

if i remember go ceart