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(d) When the question is asked with “who” or “what,” the subject alone is used in the answer, and if the subject be a personal pronoun the emphatic form will be used, as—
Cia rinne é sin? Mise. Who did that? I did.
CHAPTER VI.
The Preposition.
602. As a general rule the simple prepositions govern a dative case, and precede the words which they govern: as,
| Ṫáinig sé ó Ċorcaiġ. | He came from Cork. |
Ṫug sé an t‑uḃall do’n ṁnaoi.
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He gave the apple to the woman.
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Exceptions. (1) The preposition idir, “between,” governs the accusative case: as, idir Corcaiġ agus Luimneaċ, between Cork and Limerick.
(2) Go dtí,[1] meaning “to” (motion), is followed by the nominative case.
Ċuaiḋ sé go dtí an teaċ. He went to the house.
- ↑ Go dtí is really a corrupted form of the old subjunctive mood of the verb tigim, I come; so that the noun after go dtí was formerly nominative case to the verb.
