-sean

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sean"

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃənˠ/

Suffix

-sean

  1. alternative form of -san (used after palatalized consonants and front vowels)

See also

Irish emphatic suffixes
person after a broad
consonant		 after a slender
consonant
singular first -sa -se
second
third m -san -sean
f -sa -se
plural first -na -ne
-e (after nn in pronouns)
second -sa -se
third -san -sean
Emphatic suffixes are added to nouns modified by a possessive determiner to emphasize the possessor; to verbs, predicate adjectives, and predicate nouns to emphasize the subject; and to inflected prepositions to emphasize the object.
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