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A general guide to clitic and particle morphemes, allomorphs and morphosyntactical structures in Old Irish noun phrases. == The Vocative Particle == Nouns in the <b>{{smallcaps|voc}}</b> are always preceded by the <b>{{smallcaps|voc}}</b> particle {{seanchlo|a}}^L (var. {{seanchlo|á}}^L), e.g. {{seanchlo|a ḟir}} ‘o man’. There is no inflectional variation in the particle and it only lenites. == The Dual Numeral == Nouns in the <b>{{smallcaps|du}}</b> are always preceded by the <b>{{smallcaps|du}}</b> numeral. The <b>{{smallcaps|masc}}</b> form of the <b>{{smallcaps|du}}</b> is {{seanchlo|da}}^L (var. {{seanchlo|dá}}^L) in the <b>{{smallcaps|nom}}</b>, <b>{{smallcaps|acc}}</b> and <b>{{smallcaps|gen}}</b>, e.g. {{seanchlo|da ḟer}} ‘two men/of two men’. The <b>{{smallcaps|neut}}</b> form of the <b>{{smallcaps|du}}</b> is {{seanchlo|da}}^N (var. {{seanchlo|dá}}^N) in the <b>{{smallcaps|nom}}</b>, <b>{{smallcaps|acc}}</b> and <b>{{smallcaps|gen}}</b>, e.g. {{seanchlo|da n-armm}} ‘two weapons/of two weapons’. The <b>{{smallcaps|fem}}</b> form of the <b>{{smallcaps|du}}</b> is {{seanchlo|di}}^L (var. {{seanchlo|dí}}^L) in the <b>{{smallcaps|nom}}</b> and <b>{{smallcaps|acc}}</b>, e.g. {{seanchlo|di thúaith}} ‘two tribes’. The <b>{{smallcaps|fem}}</b> form of the <b>{{smallcaps|du}}</b> is {{seanchlo|da}}^L (var. {{seanchlo|dá}}^L) in the <b>{{smallcaps|gen}}</b>, e.g. {{seanchlo|da thúath}} ‘of two tribes’. The <b>{{smallcaps|masc}}</b>, <b>{{smallcaps|neut}}</b> and <b>{{smallcaps|fem}}</b> form of the <b>{{smallcaps|du}}</b> is {{seanchlo|dib}}^N (var. {{seanchlo|díb}}^N, {{seanchlo|deib}}^N) in the <b>{{smallcaps|dat}}</b>, which is always preceded by a preposition (or a combination of a preposition and the article), e.g. {{seanchlo|la dib n-armm}} ‘with two weapons’. The <b>{{smallcaps|du}}</b> never applies to nouns in the <b>{{smallcaps|voc}}</b>; the <b>{{smallcaps|pl}}</b> form of the noun is used instead.

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