Cad is ainm duit?

What is your name? · Kod iss an-im dit

Cad is ainm duit? means What is your name?, and is said Kod iss an-im dit.

Word for word

Taken literally it reads What is name to you. Irish often puts a sentence together differently from English, so the literal reading rarely matches the meaning.

How to say it

Say it Kod iss an-im dit, written the way an English speaker would read it.

When you’d say it

Irish does not say you have a name, it says a name is to you. Munster speakers often say Cad is ainm duit, Connacht speakers Cén t-ainm atá ort, which is literally what name is on you.

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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