fiú má
Even if
Fiú má introduces an emphatic open condition: Fiú má bhíonn sé fuar, rachaimid amach. Do not conflate it with an unreal dá-condition.
How It Works
Fiú má introduces an emphatic open condition: Fiú má bhíonn sé fuar, rachaimid amach. Do not conflate it with an unreal dá-condition.
Fiú adds emphasis to an open má condition: even if the condition holds, the result still follows. Preserve the normal verb pattern of the má clause. This does not automatically make the condition unreal or counterfactual in the way a hypothetical dá construction can.
Examples (3)
- Fiú má bhíonn sé fuar, rachaimid amach.
Even if it is cold, we will go out.
- Fiú má thagann sé, fanfaidh mé anseo.
Even if he comes, I will stay here.
- Fiú má tá sé daor, ceannóidh sí é.
Even if it is expensive, she will buy it.
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Add even to an open condition without changing it into an unreal hypothetical.
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