Irish Grammar

The Irish grammar allows you to manipulate the vocabulary to obtain multiple forms of a word. The grammatical rules below are the most important in Irish and help connect words or shape the structure. We start with the prepositions:

And: agus	Under: faoi
Before: roimh	After: tar éis
Inside: laistigh	Outside: lasmuigh
With: le	But: ach
For: le haghaidh	From: ó
To: go	In: i

Questions and Adverbs

To ask questions, use the following:

What?: cad é?	Who?: cé?
How?: conas?	Why?: cén fáth?
Where?: cén áit?

Some of the most important time adverbs:

Never: riamh (past)	Rarely: go hannamh
Sometimes: uaireanta	Usually: de ghnáth
Always: i gcónaí	Very: an-

Most commonly used pronouns in Irish:

I: mé/ mise	You: tú/ tusa
He: sé	She: sí
We: sinn	They: siad

To express the possession of something [possessive form]:

My: mo	Your: do
His: a charr	Her: a carr
Our: ár gcarr	Their: a gcarr

Grammar in a sentence

Some random verbs to show how it's being used:

I speak English: labhraím Béarla

You speak French: labhraíonn tú Fraincís

He speaks German: labhraíonn sé Gearmáinis

She speaks Italian: labhraíonn sí Iodáilis

I visited France: thug mé cuairt ar an bhFrainc

I will drink milk: ólfaidh mé bainne

Some extra grammatical structures:

I understand you: tuigim tú

I don't understand you: ní thuigim tú

I don't speak French: ní féidir liom labhairt Fraincís

This is my house: is é seo mo theach

That restaurant is far: tá an bialann sin i bhfad

No problem: aon fhadhb

The above Irish grammar can provide tools to use in coordination with the Irish vocabulary to obtain some popular Irish phrases.