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Rh can say—, or more usually,, the man who has the cow; , or , the man to whom I sold the horse.

The forms or, &c., are compounds of a preposition, relative particle; “,” the sign of the Past Tense; and  or  the Past Tense of.


 * = to whom was.
 * = with or by whom was.

as,, a woman whose name was Brigid.

As the accusative case of the relative particle has exactly the same form as the nominative, the context must determine, in those tenses in which the verb has no distinct termination for the relative, whether the relative particle is the subject or object of the verb;, may mean, The man whom John struck, or The man who struck John.

Translation of the Genitive Case of the English Relative.

The Irish relative has no inflection for case; hence, in order to translate the English word “whose”