Preposition: of

• urgency: I need you to sign the attached consent slip as a mater of urgency before Thursday.

Converse of object

• do: The sea was still rough, but it didn't mater.

• call: Go into a pub or shop to call a mater to meet you Have your house keys ready before you reach the door.

Adjective modifier

• subject: His judgements are immune from logical criticism because his subject mater includes the non-logical ground of logic itself.

• old: I think he had not realized his proximity to his old alma mater.

• own: Take the simple expression much heard in the playground of my own alma mater: " punch his pus " .

• organic: Dig a large hole and fork the base incorporating large amounts of organic mater such as garden compost, farmyard or stable manure.

• other: Steve Lowe's piece this week, about homework and other maters, may strike a chord!

Modifies a noun

• hwn: Yr ydym wedi bod yn gyson ar y mater hwn.

• graft: Dura mater grafts have largely been replaced by synthetic materials or by grafts of fibrous tissue derived from the individual undergoing the graft.

• yn: Mae'r mater hwn yn peri pryder i gymunedau cefn gwlad yn y canolbarth ac yng ngorllewin Cymru.

• o: Mae'n drueni mawr bod y Prif Weinidog wedi gwrthod ystyried y mater hwn o ddifrif.

• Yr: Nid hwnnw yw'r mater yr ydym yn ei godi yn y ddadl heddiw.

• allweddol: Trof at y Gymraeg, sef y mater allweddol arall.

Noun used with modifier

• alma: His very words: " Alma mater, si?

• dura: In the image below, the dark ruler is showing the dura mater still adhering to the inside of the cranial cavity.

• pia: I will buy nine sparrows for a penny, and his pia mater is not worth the ninth part of a sparrow.

• redemptoris: Alma redemptoris mater is an anonymous setting by an unknown composer, here transcribed and transposed for soprano, alto and tenor solo voices.

• ar: Yr ydym wedi bod yn gyson ar y mater hwn.

• i'r: Fodd bynnag, nid yw hynny'n golygu i'r mater allweddol hwn gael ei drin yn synhwyrol mewn unrhyw ffordd.