Le do thoil

Please · Leh duh hull

Le do thoil means Please, and is said Leh duh hull.

Word for word

Taken literally it reads With your will. Irish often puts a sentence together differently from English, so the literal reading rarely matches the meaning.

How to say it

Say it Leh duh hull, written the way an English speaker would read it.

When you’d say it

The fuller form is más é do thoil é, if it is your will. For more than one person, le do thoil becomes le do thoilibh in older usage, though most speakers now say the same thing to everyone.

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
• Gabh mo leithscéal: Excuse me

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