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- ’Sé seo = is é seo; ’Sé sin = is é sin, etc.
In the spoken language the phrases is é sin é, is é siúd é, etc, are very frequently contracted to sin é, sin í, siúd é, etc.
| Siúd é. | That is he. |
| Siúd é Taḋg. | Yonder is Thade. |
| Sin é an casúr. | That’s the hammer. |
The forms siné, siní, sidé, sidí, are also frequently used.
| Sidé atá orm. | That is what ails me. |
| Siní an áit. | That’s the place. |
| Sidí annso í. | Here she is here. |
| Siní í. | That is she (or it). |
| Sidé é. | This is he (or it. |
240. Súd, yonder, qualifies a pronoun; whilst úd qualifies a noun: as, an fear úd, yonder man; a fear súd, yonder woman’s husband.
Indefinite Pronouns.
241. The principal indefinite pronouns are—
- cáċ (gen. cáiċ), all, everybody, everyone else.
- uile, all.
- éinne, éinneaċ (aoin’ne), anybody.
The following are nouns, but they are used to translate English indefinite pronouns, hence we give them here:—
- duine ar biṫ, anyone at all.
- cuid … cuid eile, some … others
- beagán, a few.
