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 19 singular, it eclipses. When followed by a noun without the article it causes no out the article it causes no change.

1. Shin é an áit ab as é. That is the place he comes from.

Dé'n pháirt de Port-láirge ab as tú? From what part of Waterford do you come?

Fear as a céad bu-dheadh é (dheadh=yah)[budh eadh]. He was one in a hundred.

2. Tá sé go maith as--tá sé níos feárr (níos measa) as. He is well off--he is better (worse) off. (Irish follows English idiom.--De H. Cio 'cu (kyuk"oo or cé 'cu) 'gainn araon is meas' as? Which of us two is worse off?

3. As a' bpiadóireacht 'fhéidir go mbrisfá an cupán. Perhaps you might break the cup as a result of your fiddling (lit. ransacking).

As meisge (or ól) a thuit a ci"ta-rainn sin amach. That accident was due to drink (as a result of).

Do dhineadar an margadh as an mbualadh ar fad. After (as a result of) all their higgling (loud talk, etc.) they came to terms.

Ní bhfuaireas aon hreagra [freagra] as a' leitir. I got no reply to the letter (lit. as result of).

As na teachtaraí go léir níor tháinig an páipéar. With all the messengers [i.e. as result of their exertions] (employed) the paper did not come.