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Rh {|
 * || is usually || pronounced || kʼretʹ-udh
 * | „ || fauʹ-kudh
 * | „ || shgree-pudh
 * }
 * | „ || fauʹ-kudh
 * | „ || shgree-pudh
 * }
 * | „ || shgree-pudh
 * }
 * }

N.B.— is sounded in the second sing. Conditional active and in the Autonomous form.

The particle, causing aspiration, may be used before the Conditional when no other particle precedes it.

Note that the terminations of the Imperative Mood, the Imperfect Tense, and the Conditional are almost the same, excepting the letter of the latter.

Rule for the Aspiration of of Past Participles.

The of the past participle is generally aspirated except after the letters , and (in verbs of one syllable) .

There is a great tendency in the spoken language not to aspirate the in all verb inflexions after consonants: e.g.,, etc.

This participle cannot be used like the English participle to express action. He was praised is generally ; very seldom. The Irish participle has always the force of an adjective denoting the complete state, never the force of an action in progress.

After the Past Participle denotes what is proper or necessary, as,  He is not to be praised by you. This form, called the Participle of Necessity, should probably be regarded as distinct