An bhfuil Gaeilge agat?

Do you speak Irish? · On will Gway-il-geh ag-ut

An bhfuil Gaeilge agat? means Do you speak Irish?, and is said On will Gway-il-geh ag-ut.

Word for word

Taken literally it reads Is Irish with you. 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 Gway-il-geh ag-ut, written the way an English speaker would read it.

When you’d say it

Irish treats a language as something you have rather than something you do. The honest answers are tá beagán agam, I have a little, and níl, I have not.

More like this

• Dia duit: Hello
• Dia is Muire duit: Hello (in reply)
• Conas atá tú?: How are you?
• Tá mé go maith: I am well
• Go raibh maith agat: Thank you
• Le do thoil: Please

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