Quick follow-up question on genitive “strings”

[Duncan]

Here’s a very quick question I thought of related to an earlier post (Genitive “Strings”) that I made back in May. I got a lot of great advice on how to treat sentences with multiple genitives in a row, in several different settings. For example it was established that “the color of the woman’s house” would be “dath theach na mná” because only the final word takes the genitive form.

My only question is what to do with modifiers, especially regarding how to modify “theach” above since it’s not using the genitive form of “tí”: Do the rules stay the same? Would “the new color of the nice woman’s big house” be “dath nua theach mhóir na mná deise?” In other words, does the adjective in that middle word take the same form as if it were modifying “an tí?”

Thanks again for your input.

[Labhrás]

Here’s a very quick question I thought of related to an earlier post (Genitive “Strings”) that I made back in May. I got a lot of great advice on how to treat sentences with multiple genitives in a row, in several different settings. For example it was established that “the color of the woman’s house” would be “dath theach na mná” because only the final word takes the genitive form.

My only question is what to do with modifiers, especially regarding how to modify “theach” above since it’s not using the genitive form of “tí”: Do the rules stay the same? Would “the new color of the nice woman’s big house” be “dath nua theach mhóir na mná deise?” In other words, does the adjective in that middle word take the same form as if it were modifying “an tí?”

Thanks again for your input.

No, I’d say it doesn’t change at all: teach mór -> theach mór

dath nua theach mór na mná deise.

[Duncan]

OK, I had been wondering if the genitive form was dropped from just the noun, or from the adjective as well. (I had also considered using “mhór” to match “theach.”) Your solution makes the best sense of all; GRMA, a Labhrás.

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