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2. To express the agent: After the verbal noun, preceded by ar, ag, &c.:
- Ar dteaċt annso dóiḃ. On their arrival here.
With the participle of necessity, participles in ion, &c.:
| Ní molta ḋuit é. | He must not be praised by you. |
| Is é sin is indéanta ḋuit. | That’s what you ought to do. |
3. For its use in connection with the verbal noun see pars. 563, 568, 570.
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FÁ or FÉ, UNDER, ABOUT, CONCERNING.
1. Literal use: as,
- Tá sé fá ’n mbord. It is under the table.
2. Fá is used in forming the multiplicatives:
| a trí fé ḋó, | twice three. |
| a dó fé ceaṫair, | four times two. |
3. In adverbial phrases:
| fá ċoṁair, (keeping) for. | fá leiṫ, separately. |
| fá ḋeo, at last. | fá ḋeireaḋ, at last. |
| fá ṡeaċ, individually, separately. | fá mar, just so (as), |
