An bhfuil cead agam dul go dtí an leithreas?

May I go to the toilet? · On will kyad ag-um dull guh dee on leh-hras

An bhfuil cead agam dul go dtí an leithreas? means May I go to the toilet?, and is said On will kyad ag-um dull guh dee on leh-hras.

Word for word

Taken literally it reads Is permission with me to go to the toilet. Irish often puts a sentence together differently from English, so the literal reading rarely matches the meaning.

How to say it

Say it On will kyad ag-um dull guh dee on leh-hras, written the way an English speaker would read it.

When you’d say it

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