ochtar

Irish

ochtar

ochtar m (genitive singular ochtair, nominative plural ochtair) (triggers no mutation)

a group of eight people
Tá ochtar daltaí sa rang.
There are eight pupils in the class.

Generally used with the genitive plural when referring to human beings; also sometimes used with other nouns, especially if the things they denote are being personified.

Declension of ochtar

First declension

Bare forms:

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ochtar	n-ochtar	hochtar	t-ochtar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ochtar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “ochtar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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