allait

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (v) /a.lɛ/

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• Homophones: aller, allé, allée, allés, allées, allais

Verb

allait

1. third-person singular imperfect indicative of aller

Anagrams

• aillât, alliât, tailla

Irish

Etymology

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Noun

allait f (genitive singular allaite, nominative plural allaití)

1. shapeless mass, bundle
   1. (by extension) monolith

      Synonym: monailit

2. shapeless, flabby, person
   1. (very informal, offensive) dog (unattractive woman)

      Synonyms: cailleach, cráin

Declension

Declension of allait

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative allait allaití Vocative a allait a allaití Genitive allaite allaití Dative allait allaití

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an allait na hallaití Genitive na hallaite na n-allaití Dative leis an allait don allait leis na hallaití

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
allait	n-allait	hallait	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “allait”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “allait”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024