Personal and prepositional pronouns

What is a pronoun?

A pronoun is a word that is used to take the place of nouns in a sentence. Some personal pronouns in English include I, me, you, he, she, we or they.

Here are a list of pronouns used in Irish.

There are also certain forms of these pronouns called emphatic forms.

These are used when you want to place emphasis on the personal pronoun. The most common way you'll come across these are mise (me, myself) and tusa / thusa (you, yourself).

Is mise Antaine agus is mise an duine is sine sa rang.I'm Antaine and I'm the oldest in the class.

Prepositional pronouns

As a reminder, prepositions are words in a language which tell you more about where something is, for example, under, with, or on in English.

Learn more about the prepositions in Irishin this guide.

In Irish, when a preposition and a pronoun come together, they are combined into what is called a prepositional pronoun. For example, le means with, and mé means me. In English this would go together as with me, but in Irish, le plus mé becomes liom.

Below are some of the prepositional pronouns and their different forms for you to learn.

It can be difficult to remember all the different prepositional pronouns, but just be patient with yourself and test yourself often!

"Cleachtadh a dhéanann maistreacht!" Practice makes perfect!

agat

aron

lewith

asout of, from

chuigto

dofor

faoiunder / about

deof

iin

idirbetween

ófrom

roimhbefore

tharover, past

tríthrough, by