Gaeilgeoireacht

Irish

Etymology

Gaeilgeoir (“Irish-speaker”) +‎ -acht (abstract nominal suffix)

Noun

Gaeilgeoireacht f (genitive singular Gaeilgeoireachta)

1. (act of) speaking Irish

Declension

Declension of Gaeilgeoireacht

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural for this noun): Case Singular Nominative Gaeilgeoireacht Vocative a Ghaeilgeoireacht Genitive Gaeilgeoireachta Dative Gaeilgeoireacht

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an Ghaeilgeoireacht Genitive na Gaeilgeoireachta Dative leis an nGaeilgeoireacht don Ghaeilgeoireacht

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
Gaeilgeoireacht	Ghaeilgeoireacht	nGaeilgeoireacht
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “Gaeilgeoireacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN