Middle Irish

Middle Irish is a fusional, VSO, nominative-accusative language, and makes frequent use of lenition.

Nouns decline for two genders: masculine and feminine, though traces of neuter declension persist; three numbers: singular, dual, plural; and five cases: nominative, accusative, genitive, prepositional, vocative.

Verbs conjugate for three tenses: past, present, future; four moods: indicative, subjunctive, conditional, imperative; independent and dependent forms.

There are a number of preverbal particles marking the negative, interrogative, subjunctive, relative clauses, etc.

The following is an untitled poem in Middle Irish about Eógan Bél, King of Connacht.

Middle Irish inscription from Clonmacnoise : Oroit ar Thurcain lasan dernad in chrossa : "Pray for Turcan by whom this cross was made." [ 5 ] [ 6 ]