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and, if with t or d, it causes no change. The phrase ag an doras, is pronounced ge’n a doras, an a being inserted between the article and the noun.
Ag followed immediately by the noun causes no change.
| 1. Is beag acu ábalt’ ar a’ nGaolainn do léiġeaṁ (lay″ uv). | Few of them are able to read Irish. |
| Ṫá sé pósta ’ci, | He is married to her. |
| Ṫá sí in áiriġṫe ’ge. | She is engaged to him. |
| Cé ’ge ḋ’airiġ tu é? | From whom did you hear it? |
| 2. Ṫá sé in a͜m agam sgrí[oḃaḋ] ċuġat. | It is time for me to write to you. |
| Ṫá sé in a͜m acu é sin a ḋéanaḋ. | It is time for them to do that. |
| Ṫá sé in a͜m ’ge duin″-igint [duine éigin] eaċt-ainn ṁaiṫ do ḋéanaḋ do sna daoine boċta. | It is time for someone to do a good turn [service] to the poor people. |
| 3. Bfeárr lé ’ci-héin é ná ’g Éinn’ eile. | She would prefer that she should have it rather than anyone else. |
| Sin í an ċéad uair aige, | That is his first time. |
| 4. ’Dé an [cad é an] díoḃail (ḃ=v) aċ gan an tsláinte ró-ṁait aige. | It would not matter only that he was not in very good health. |
| Do ṡiuḃlaḋ sé amaċ ar fuaid na háite ’gainn. | He used to walk out about our place (ár n-áite will not do). |
| 5. Ṫá pianta i m’ ġualainn aige. | I have pains in my shoulder from it (lit. it has pains, etc.). |
