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What are dentals in irish ?

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  • 18-04-2014 11:57am
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    Deathscythe
    Registered Users Posts: 19 ✭


    My Irish has really big horse looking teeth. He always says something like "don't forget the dentals" is it his teeth or something else.


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    dee_mc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,179 ✭✭✭dee_mc


    Maybe he's saying 'dentures'? I'm not aware of any word in the Irish language that sounds like that, or any slang word that sounds like that.


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    Deathscythe
    Registered Users Posts: 19 ✭Deathscythe


    dee_mc wrote: »
    Maybe he's saying 'dentures'? I'm not aware of any word in the Irish language that sounds like that, or any slang word that sounds like that.

    Nah man he literally says dentals then does these weird faces.


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    ElmW13
    Registered Users Posts: 188 ✭✭ElmW13


    D N T L S

    Normally "an" takes a h after it - an mhála

    However if you want to say the door it would be - an doras

    This is because when the if one of the dntls is the last letter of one word and the first letter of the other, the second word won't take a h.

    Hope this helps


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    Kevcol
    Registered Users Posts: 241 ✭✭Kevcol


    It's called the 'DNTLS' or 'Dentals' rule.

    When you have to stick a "h" on a word, you don't do so for the letters:

    d t s

    if they're preceeded by d t s l n.

    Examples:

    an duais
    don seomra
    seandoctúir


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