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What form of the preposition is used with the automnomous form of a verb where they are used together to express a meaning? e.g. “mothuighim uaim“, “I miss” > “mothuightear [color=red]____?[/color]” “One misses” etc.
I don’t think it exists in Irish at all, nor in any Celtic language except certain Breton dialects 🙂
In this case you may say “mothaigheann duine uaidh / daoine uathu”…No idea. I suppose you could paraphrase it, for example, by using the word “an té” (“he who”). “Mothaíonn an té atá ina chónaí thar lear a mhuintir uaidh”. But I fear that doesn’t answer your question.
Kinda makes sense. I think of the prepositional pronouns as being, by definition, compounds of prepositions and personal pronouns, so there would be no application in the impersonal realm of autonomous verb conjugations. (Don’t mind me, just thinking it through out loud.)
Yeah, aside from the fact that it’s not really theoretically possible within the confines of what I understand of the grammar, I have just never encountered it (which doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen – I’m no expert – but if Lughaidh says he’s never seen it either, I think it’s probably something people don’t say).
Btw, there is an actual verb which also means “to miss” – cronaigh, and you can use that in the impersonal.
cronófar gó mór é.
he’ll be greatly missed.
(from beo.ie)
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