Prepositions in Connemara Irish (1)

To start things off here, we’ll start by discussing some of the common features of Connemara Irish. Most of these features are common throughout Connemara, though it, of course, may depend on speakers.

One of the most common, and easiest, tells of Connemara Irish is the difference in the prepositions and the prepositional pronouns. I will share the list of each of them below, standard on one side, with the Connemara spelling on the other. One particular thing to note, chuig is not really used in the dialect, having merged with ag. It will thus be left out, and it follows the declension pattern of ag. It’s also worth noting that do and de are well on their way to being completely merged as well, as for some speakers there is no difference between them.

This post will discuss the prepositions ag, ar, as, de, do, faoi and trí. i, le, ó, thar, roimh and idir will be discussed in a separate post. The forms go: base, first person singular, second person singular, third person singular masculine, third person singular feminine, first person plural, second person plural, third person plural.