Wishes With the Subjunctive

Level 6

Fixed wishes preserve present subjunctive forms: Go raibh maith agat; Go n-éirí leat. These are not ordinary future indicative clauses.

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Fixed wishes preserve present subjunctive forms: Go raibh maith agat; Go n-éirí leat. These are not ordinary future indicative clauses.

The present subjunctive survives in wishes and familiar formulas. Go raibh maith agat is a conventional thanks, while Go n-éirí leat wishes success. The words after go are not ordinary future forms: learn the subjunctive phrase and its intended use.

Examples (3)

Go raibh maith agat.
Thank you.
Go n-éirí leat.
May you succeed.
Go mbeannaí Dia duit.
May God bless you.

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Distinguish formulaic wishing go from an ordinary asserted complement.

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