Conas atá tú?

How are you? · Kun-as ah-taw too

Conas atá tú? means How are you?, and is said Kun-as ah-taw too.

Word for word

Taken literally it reads How are you. Irish often puts a sentence together differently from English, so the literal reading rarely matches the meaning.

How to say it

Say it Kun-as ah-taw too, written the way an English speaker would read it.

When you’d say it

This is the Munster form, and the one most often taught in schools. In Connacht you will hear Cén chaoi a bhfuil tú, and in Ulster Cad é mar atá tú. All three mean the same thing.

More like this

• Dia duit: Hello
• Dia is Muire duit: Hello (in reply)
• Tá mé go maith: I am well
• Go raibh maith agat: Thank you
• Le do thoil: Please
• Gabh mo leithscéal: Excuse me

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