Go raibh maith agat

Thank you · Guh rev moh ag-ut

Go raibh maith agat means Thank you, and is said Guh rev moh ag-ut.

Word for word

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

How to say it

Say it Guh rev moh ag-ut, written the way an English speaker would read it.

When you’d say it

Thanking someone in Irish is a wish rather than a word: may good come to you. For more than one person it is go raibh maith agaibh, and for a bigger thanks, go raibh míle maith agat.

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
• Le do thoil: Please
• Gabh mo leithscéal: Excuse me

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