Coláiste Chiaráin

Coláiste Chiaráin

Vocabulary:

coláiste [m] = college (secondary school, university)
Ciarán = Kieran, Irish male first name

Grammar:

The noun “coláiste” is a masculine noun from the fourth declension consisting of mostly masculine nouns ending with a vowel and diminutives ending in -ín (also masculine nouns).

The genitive of the nouns from that declension is the same as their nominative. Singular and plural.

coláiste = a college / an coláiste = the college
coláiste = of a college / an choláiste = of the college
coláistí = colleges / na coláistí = the colleges
coláistí = of collages / na gcoláistí = of the colleges

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