conas atá

Asking How Someone Is

Level 1

Conas atá tú? asks how you are. Other varieties use forms such as Cén chaoi a bhfuil tú?; they are not errors.

How It Works

Conas atá tú? asks how you are. Other varieties use forms such as Cén chaoi a bhfuil tú?; they are not errors.

Conas asks how and atá is the direct-relative present form used in this question. Answer with Tá mé... rather than copying atá into an ordinary independent statement. Cén chaoi a bhfuil tú? and Cad é mar atá tú? are established regional alternatives, not failed versions of conas.

Examples (3)

  1. Conas atá tú?

    How are you?

  2. Conas atá Nóra?

    How is Nóra?

  3. Conas atá na páistí?

    How are the children?

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conas atáLevel 1Asking How Someone Is

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Recognize a state of bí before asking how that state is.

Words in This Pattern

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