substaintiúil

Irish

Etymology

From substaint +‎ -úil.

Adjective

substaintiúil (genitive singular masculine substaintiúil, genitive singular feminine substaintiúla, plural substaintiúla, comparative substaintiúla)

1. substantial

   Synonym: bunúsach

Declension

Declension of substaintiúil

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	substaintiúil	shubstaintiúil	substaintiúla; shubstaintiúla²
Vocative	shubstaintiúil		substaintiúla
Genitive		substaintiúla	substaintiúla	substaintiúil
Dative	substaintiúil; shubstaintiúil¹	shubstaintiúil	substaintiúla; shubstaintiúla²
Comparative	níos substaintiúla
Superlative	is substaintiúla

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
substaintiúil	shubstaintiúil after an, tsubstaintiúil	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “substaintiúil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “substaintiúil”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “substaintiúil”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024