The nominative plural frequently ends like Welsh and Manx in an; as, Slatan, rods; Maithean, chiefs.
3. Verbs.
The analytic form is alone used, there being no inflections for persons or numbers.
The Irish present is used as the future, and there is no present tense.[279]
The past-participle is invariably te hard, and is not varied as in Irish.
There are no consuetudinary tenses.
4. Adverb.
The negative is Cha, instead of Ni, in Irish.
Vocabulary.
There is a considerable difference in the vocabulary words being now used in Irish, which are unknown in Scotch Gaelic, and vice versa, and a comparison of the lists of idiomatic phrases in Irish or Scotch Gaelic shows a very great difference in the mode of expressing familiar phrases.[280]