fás – Irish noun declension

Irish noun forms of fás

Noun: fás

Gender: Masc

Forms without Article

Singular Nominativefás
Singular Genitivefáis
Plural Nominativefáis
Plural Genitivefás

Forms with Article

Singular Nominativean fás
Singular Genitivean fháis
Plural Nominativena fáis
Plural Genitivena bhfás

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like fás

amas, anas, aontas, armas, atlas, bardas, barántas, beartas, brabús, breithiúnas, bronntanas, bunús, busáras, bácús, cachtas, caillteanas, caolas, carrchlós, ceadúnas, ceanglas, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Old Irish ásaid and its verbal noun áss (“growing, growth”). The f comes from the reinterpretation of ás- as fhás- in lenition environments.

Verbs referencing "fás"

Galician Nouns devasa.

Translations

  • grow, (''intransitive'') to become bigger
  • grow, (''intransitive'') to appear or sprout
  • grow, (''transitive'') to cause something to become bigger