What are dentals in irish ?

Deathscythe

My Irish has really big horse looking teeth. He always says something like "don't forget the dentals" is it his teeth or something else.

dee_mc

Maybe he's saying 'dentures'? I'm not aware of any word in the Irish language that sounds like that, or any slang word that sounds like that.

Deathscythe

dee_mc wrote: »

Maybe he's saying 'dentures'? I'm not aware of any word in the Irish language that sounds like that, or any slang word that sounds like that.

Nah man he literally says dentals then does these weird faces.

ElmW13

D N T L S

Normally "an" takes a h after it - an mhála

However if you want to say the door it would be - an doras

This is because when the if one of the dntls is the last letter of one word and the first letter of the other, the second word won't take a h.

Hope this helps

Kevcol

It's called the 'DNTLS' or 'Dentals' rule.

When you have to stick a "h" on a word, you don't do so for the letters:

d t s

if they're preceeded by d t s l n.

Examples:

an duais
don seomra
seandoctúir