About this word
An dara is the second of the Ordinal Numbers.
Notes
Pronounced an tarna in Munster, also sometimes an darna in Connacht and Ulster.
The ordinal numbers in Irish from one to ten
- an chéad [rud]: the first [thing].
- an dara [rud]: the second [thing].
- an tríú [rud]: the third [thing].
- an ceathrú [rud]: the fourth [thing].
- an cúigiú [rud]: the fifth [thing].
- an séú [rud]: the sixth [thing].
- an seachtú [rud]: the seventh [thing].
- an t‑ochtú [rud]: the eighth [thing].
- an naoú [rud]: the ninth [thing].
- an deichiú [rud]: the tenth [thing].
The ordinal numbers in Irish from eleven to twenty
- an t‑aonú [rud] déag: the eleventh [thing].
- an dara [rud] déag: the twelfth [thing].
- an tríú [rud] déag: the thirteenth [thing].
- an ceathrú [rud] déag: the fourteenth [thing].
- an cúigiú [rud] déag: the fifteenth [thing].
- an séú [rud] déag: the sixteenth [thing].
- an seachtú [rud] déag: the seventeenth [thing].
- an t‑ochtú [rud] déag: the eighteenth [thing].
- an naoú [rud] déag: the ninteenth [thing].
- an fichiú [rud]: the twentieth [thing].