"The boy wears a sweater and the girl wears a dress."

Translation: Caitheann an buachaill geansaí agus caitheann an cailín gúna.

[B_D_Codeman]

I think I am totally confusing myself.

Is there an easy way to know when a sentence structure is VOS versus VSO?

Just when I think I’m getting the hang of Irish sentence structure, I swap the order. :(

[JoanThe3rd]

right!? i could have sworn this sentence was marked correct in an earlier exercise when i wrote caitheann geansaí an buachaill agus caitheann gúna an cailín... ugh.

[rdrmeints]

Why isn't "cailín" lenited in that case?

[TadhgMonabot]

both buachaill and cailin are masculine

[Pallethands]

Cailín is masculine?

[thisnightsrevels]

Me, Irish: what on earth is a sweater

[DaphneGool]

How is cailín a masculine noun?

[TArdy44]

One of the oddities of Irish is that the word cailín is masculine! ( I got caught by this AGAIN ).

[JessyK1104]

Why is boy and girl not lenited?!

[Demolition_Woman]

No lenition of masculine nouns in the nominative case, as I understand.

[Soetkin_E.]

Why is it necessary to repeat the verb "caitheann"? My answer "Caitheann an buachaill geansaí agus an cailín gúna." was not accepted.

[SatharnPHL]

Why does that not mean that the boy wears both a geansaí and the cailín gúna?

[TadhgMonabot]

Fadas in Duolingo: Alt +160 = á, Alt +130 = é, Alt + 161 = í, Alt + 162 = ó & Alt + 163 = ú. In Microsoft, Ctrl + ' then type vowel.