tábhachtach

Irish

Etymology

From tábhacht (“importance, significance, substance; industry, thrift”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪ˠɑːxt̪ˠəx]
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪ˠɑːwəxt̪ˠəx]
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪ˠæːwəxt̪ˠa(h)]

Adjective

tábhachtach (genitive singular masculine tábhachtaigh, genitive singular feminine tábhachtaí, plural tábhachtacha, comparative tábhachtaí)

1. important, significant; substantial, consequential
2. industrious, thrifty

Declension

Declension of tábhachtach

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	tábhachtach	thábhachtach	tábhachtacha; thábhachtacha²
Vocative	thábhachtaigh		tábhachtacha
Genitive		tábhachtaí	tábhachtacha	tábhachtach
Dative	tábhachtach; thábhachtach¹	thábhachtach; thábhachtaigh (archaic)	tábhachtacha; thábhachtacha²
Comparative	níos tábhachtaí
Superlative	is tábhachtaí

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Synonyms

• (important): mórluachach
• (significant): suntasach

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
tábhachtach	thábhachtach	dtábhachtach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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