ná

Conjugation

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Derived terms

• ná sér
• ná sér í

Particle

ná

1. don’t (particle used to introduce a negative imperative; triggers h-prothesis of a following vowel)

   Ná déan sin.

   Don’t do that.

   Ná habair é.

   Don’t mention it.

2. may...not (particle used with raibh, the present subjunctive of bí, to introduce a negative wish)

   Dealbh ná raibh tú.

   May you never be destitute.

3. (Munster) Alternative form of nach (“not”) (in questions; triggers h-prothesis; used with the dependent form of an irregular verb if there is one)

   Ná fuil ocras ort?

   Are you not hungry?

   Chonac í, ná facas?

   I saw her, didn’t I?

Conjunction

ná (triggers h-prothesis; used with the dependent form of an irregular verb if there is one)

1. (Munster) Alternative form of nach (“that...not”)

   Dúirt sé ná raibh carr aige.

   He said that he didn’t have a car.

Conjunction

ná

1. nor

   Níl deartháir ná deirfiúr agam.

   I have neither brother nor sister.

2. used between two identical or similar words to intensify a negative

   Ní fhaca sí solas ná solas.

   She saw no light whatsoever (lit. She didn’t see light or light).

Alternative forms

• ioná (archaic)
• 'ná (superseded)

Conjunction

ná (triggers h-prothesis)

1. than

   Is airde Máire ná Peadar.

   Mary is taller than Peter.

2. but (used rhetorically in direct and indirect questions)

   Cé a bhí ina shuí ann ná m’athair féin?

   Who was sitting there but my own father?

3. used to connect a predicate noun to its subject in a cleft sentence introduced by a copular form

   Is é a dúirt sé ná gur dhíol sé a ríomhaire lena chara.

   What he said was that he sold his computer to his friend.

   • 1907, Peadar Ua Laoghaire, Séadna, p. 6:

     Bhí fear ann fad ó agus isé ainim a bhí air ’ná Séadna.

     Once upon a time there was a man and the name that he had was Séadna.

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