FromRussianцарь(carʹ), fromOld Church Slavonicцѣсарь(cěsarĭ), ultimately fromLatinCaesar.
cár (pluralcárok)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | cár | cárok |
| accusative | cárt | cárokat |
| dative | cárnak | cároknak |
| instrumental | cárral | cárokkal |
| causal-final | cárért | cárokért |
| translative | cárrá | cárokká |
| terminative | cárig | cárokig |
| essive-formal | cárként | cárokként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | cárban | cárokban |
| superessive | cáron | cárokon |
| adessive | cárnál | cároknál |
| illative | cárba | cárokba |
| sublative | cárra | cárokra |
| allative | cárhoz | cárokhoz |
| elative | cárból | cárokból |
| delative | cárról | cárokról |
| ablative | cártól | cároktól |
| non-attributive possessive – singular | cáré | cároké |
| non-attributive possessive – plural | cáréi | cárokéi |
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
|---|---|---|
| 1st person sing. | cárom | cárjaim |
| 2nd person sing. | cárod | cárjaid |
| 3rd person sing. | cárja | cárjai |
| 1st person plural | cárunk | cárjaink |
| 2nd person plural | cárotok | cárjaitok |
| 3rd person plural | cárjuk | cárjaik |
(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)
cár m (genitive singularcáirorcárach)
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cár
Used only with the past tense of regular and some irregular verbs. Triggerslenition of a following consonant.
cár (copular form used before a consonant,present/future form used before a vowelcárb,past/conditional form used before a vowelcárbh)
| simple copular forms | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| affirmative | negative | interrogative | negative interrogative | ||
| present/future | |||||
| main clause | is | ní | an | nach | |
| relative clause | direct | nach | – | ||
| indirect | ar,arbv | ||||
| other subordinate clause | gur,gurbv | an | nach | ||
| past/conditional | |||||
| main clause | ba,b’v | níor,níorbhv | ar,arbhv | nár,nárbhv | |
| relative clause | direct | ba,abv | nár,nárbhv | – | |
| indirect | ar,arbhv | ||||
| other subordinate clause | gur,gurbhv | ar,arbhv | nár,nárbhv | ||
| present subjunctive | |||||
| – | gura,gurabv | nára,nárabv | – | ||
| compound copular forms | |||||
| base word | present/future | past/conditional | |||
| cá | cár,cárbv | cár,cárbhv | |||
| cé | cér,cérbv | cér,cérbhv | |||
| dá | – | dámba,dámb’v | |||
| de/do | dar,darbv | dar,darbhv | |||
| faoi | faoinar,faoinarbv | faoinar,faoinarbhv | |||
| i | inar,inarbv | inar,inarbhv | |||
| le | lenar,lenarbv | lenar,lenarbhv | |||
| má | más | mába,máb’v | |||
| mura | mura,murabv | murar,murarbhv | |||
| ó(preposition) | ónar,ónarbv | ónar,ónarbhv | |||
| ó(conjunction) | ós | óba,ób’v | |||
| trí | trínar,trínarbv | trínar,trínarbhv | |||
v Used before vowel sounds
| radical | lenition | eclipsis |
|---|---|---|
| cár | chár | gcár |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Derived fromRussianцарь(carʹ), fromProto-Slavic*cěsařь, from aGermanic language, fromProto-Germanic*kaisaraz, fromLatinCaesar.
cár m pers (female equivalentcárovná)