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and, if with t or d, it causes no change. The phrase ag an doras, is pronounced ge’n a doras, an a being inserted between the article and the noun.

Ag followed immediately by the noun causes no change.

1. Is beag acu ábalt’ ar a’ nGaolainn do léiġeaṁ (lay″ uv). Few of them are able to read Irish.
Ṫá sé pósta ’ci, He is married to her.
Ṫá sí in áiriġṫe ’ge. She is engaged to him.
Cé ’ge ḋ’airiġ tu é? From whom did you hear it?
2. Ṫá sé in a͜m agam sgrí[oḃaḋ] ċuġat. It is time for me to write to you.
Ṫá sé in a͜m acu é sin a ḋéanaḋ. It is time for them to do that.
Ṫá sé in a͜m ’ge duin″-igint [duine éigin] eaċt-ainn ṁaiṫ do ḋéanaḋ do sna daoine boċta. It is time for someone to do a good turn [service] to the poor people.
3. Bfeárr lé ’ci-héin é ná ’g Éinn’ eile. She would prefer that she should have it rather than anyone else.
Sin í an ċéad uair aige, That is his first time.
4. ’Dé an [cad é an] díoḃail (ḃ=v) aċ gan an tsláinte ró-ṁait aige. It would not matter only that he was not in very good health.
Do ṡiuḃlaḋ sé amaċ ar fuaid na háite ’gainn. He used to walk out about our place (ár n-áite will not do).
5. Ṫá pianta i m’ ġualainn aige. I have pains in my shoulder from it (lit. it has pains, etc.).
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