verb in the preterite, imperfect or conditional These were originally preceded by the particle and often still are in Munster. "I broke" "I used to break" "I would break" In modifier + head constructions Lenition is blocked in these constructions if two coronals are adjacent. After certain numbers The singular form is used after numbers and is lenited in the following cases: "one cow" "the first year" "two houses" "two men" "three boats" "four cows" "five pounds" "six months" After preposed adjectives Constructions of adjective + noun are written as compounds. "old woman" "bad person" "good deed" "modern language" "stormy sea" "true skin" "high pressure" "young man" After most prefixes "very small" "too small" "retake" "new year" "undeniable" "saucer" "overalls" "interconfessional" "polygamy" "stepmother" "unhappy" "insomnia" "capital city" "fragile" The second part of a compound "noun" (lit. "name word") "dark blue" "national debt" In head + modifier constructions In these constructions coronals are lenited even following other "rainy weather" (lenition after a feminine singular noun) "bottles of juice" (lenition after a plural ending in a slender consonant) "Seán's house" (lenition of a definite noun in the genitive) Postposed adjectives in certain circumstances "a pretty woman" (lenition after a feminine singular noun) "the big men" (lenition after a plural noun ending in a slender consonant) "the name of the small man" (lenition after a masculine singular noun in the genitive) "in the big tree" (lenition after a noun lenited by virtue of being in the dative after , , or ) Enviorments of Eclipsis After plural possessive pronouns The possessive pronouns that trigger eclipsis are "our", "your (pl.)", "their" "our friends" "your (pl.) children" "their boat", Note that can mean "his", "her" or "their", but these different uses can still be distinguished, since causes lenition when used as "his" (), causes eclipsis when used as "their" (), and neither when used as "her" (). After certain numbers The numbers that trigger eclipsis (the noun being in the singular) are: "seven horses" "eight donkeys" "nine cats" "ten pens" After the preposition "in" Before a vowel is written instead of . "in a house" "in Ireland" Genitive plural nouns after the definite article The genitive plural article eclipses a following noun: "of the donkeys" "of the words" Dative singular nouns after the definite article In western and southern dialects, nouns beginning with a noncoronal consonant are eclipsed after combinations of preposition + article in