Forms of Conjugation.
248. Every Irish verb, with the single exception of is, has three forms of conjugation: The Synthetic, the Analytic, and the Autonomous.
249. The synthetic, or pronominal form, is that in which the persons are expressed by means of terminations or inflections. All the persons, singular and plural, with the single exception of the third person singular, have synthetic forms in practically every tense. The third person singular can never have its nominative contained in the verb-ending or termination.
The following example is the present tense synthetic form of the verb mol, praise:—
| SINGULAR. | PLURAL. |
| molaim, I praise. | molaimid, we praise. |
| molair, thou praisest. | moltaoi, you praise. |
| molann sé, he praises. | molaid, they praise. |
250. In the analytic form of conjugation the persons are not expressed by inflection; the form of the verb remains the same throughout the tense and the persons are expressed by the pronouns placed after the verb. The form of the verb in the third person singular of the above example is the form the verb has in the analytic form of the present tense.
The analytic form in every tense has identically the same form as the third person singular of that tense.
N.B.—The analytic form is generally employed in asking questions.
