lenar

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Irish

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Pronunciation

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Particle

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lenar (form used before non-past tenses lena) (used before a past tense; triggers lenition of a following consonant except in the autonomous form)

  1. with which/whom
    an buachaill lenar bhuail méthe boy with whom I met

Usage notes

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Especially in the spoken language, it is more common to use the indirect relative particle ar with a resumptive prepositional pronoun:

an buachaill ar bhuail mé leisthe boy with whom I met

Particle

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lenar (form used before a vowel in the present/future lenarb, form used before a vowel in the past/conditional lenarbh) (used before a consonant sound; triggers lenition in the past/conditional)

  1. with which/whom is
    an fear lenar féidir labhairt le hainmhithethe man who can talk to animals
  2. with which/whom was/would be
    an bhean lenar dhóigh gurbh fhíor éthe woman who believed it was true

Usage notes

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Here again, it is more common, especially in the spoken language, to use the indirect relative particle ar with a resumptive prepositional pronoun:

an fear ar féidir leis a labhairt le hainmhithethe man who can talk to animals
an bhean ar dhóigh léi gurbh fhíor éthe woman who believed it was true
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