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The word and its plural  are often used with numerals when the noun is not expressed in English: as,. How many books have you? I have twelve.
 * (or )
 * There is one of them in the house.

The Dual Number.

, “two,” always takes the noun after it in the dual number (neither singular nor plural), which in every Irish noun has the same form as the dative singular. This does not at all imply that the noun after is in the dative case. It is in the dative singular form, but it may be in any of the five cases, according to its use in the sentence. All the cases of the dual number are alike, but the form of the genitive plural is often used for the genitive dual:, two cows; , two smiths; or , the full of his two hands.