Page:Graimear na Gaedhilge.djvu/44 44. In Irish there are five
cases—the Nominative, Accusative, Genitive, Dative, and
Vocative. The Nominative case in Irish corresponds to the
English nominative when the subject of a verb. The Accusative
corresponds to the English objective case when governed by a
transitive verb. The accusative case of every noun in modern
Irish has the same form as the nominative, and suffers the same
initial changes as regards aspiration and eclipsis. The Genitive
case corresponds to the English possessive case. English nouns
in the possessive case or in the objective case, preceded by the
preposition "of," are usually translated into Irish by the
genitive case. The Dative case is the case governed by
prepositions. The Vocative corresponds to the English nominative
of address. It is always used in addressing a person or persons.
It is preceded by the sign a, although "O" may not appear before
the English word; but this a is not usually pronounced before a
vowel or fh. RULES FOR THE FORMAT