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-acht
-acht
Irish
Alternative forms
- -eacht (slender variant)
- -ocht (following í)
Suffix
-acht f
- Nominal suffix, used to form abstract ideas or nouns roughly corresponding to English -ness, -hood, -ity, or -ure.
Usage notes
- This affix forms feminine nouns of the third declension. Abstract nouns do not have plural forms; however, concepts that refer to concrete items do have plurals in -aí.
Declension
Abstract nouns:
Declension of -acht
Third declension
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Bare forms (no plural for this noun):
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Forms with the definite article:
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Concrete nouns:
Declension of -acht
Third declension
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Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:Irish_words_suffixed_with_-acht'>Irish words suffixed with -acht</a>
Old Irish
Suffix
-acht f
Usage notes
After a palatalised consonant, the suffix becomes -echt.
Inflection
| Feminine ā-stem | |||
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| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | -achtL | -achtL | -achta |
| Vocative | -achtL | -achtL | -achta |
| Accusative | -achtN | -achtL | -achta |
| Genitive | -achtae | -achtL | -achtN |
| Dative | -achtL | -achtaib | -achtaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Derived terms
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:Old_Irish_words_suffixed_with_-acht'>Old Irish words suffixed with -acht</a>