"Cé hé mo dhlíodóir?"

Translation: Who is my lawyer?

[Ishoki02]

Is Pól é mo dhlíodóir.

[molly428835]

• Is Pól é do dhlíodóir

[SatharnPHL]

Is é Pól do dhlíodóir

[Sylvain2015]

how would you pronounce dhlíodóir?

[ZuMako8_Momo]

I suppose it would be pronounced something like this: [ˈjlʲiːədoːrʲ], with a "y"-type sound in the beginning because the "í" slenderizes both the "dh" and the "l."

[songoftheskies]

Would "Cé hí mo dhlíodóir?" also be a translation? You don't know beforehand if the lawyer is male or female.

[galaxyrocker]

If you don't know, you default to é

[scilling]

Hí would be acceptable if you knew that your lawyer were a woman, but didn’t yet know her name. If you didn’t know anything about your lawyer, then an epicene hé would be used. Given the lack of context, an argument could be made for also accepting hí in this sentence.

[Ballygawley]

Lenition for é. í and iad after ní, apparently also after cé ;-)

[talideon]

That's not lenition. That 'h' is only there because 'cé' and 'ní' end with a vowel and 'iad', 'í', and 'é' start with vowel. Otherwise, you'd end up with hiatus between the vowels when speaking, which Irish tries to avoid.

[Ballygawley]

Of course.

http://nualeargais.ie/gnag/anlaut1.htm

[becky3086]

So this is like saying "Who is he, my lawyer?" I am trying to understand why these "e, i, aid" etc. are put in these sentences at all.

[Fiona-Rose1]

Knowing Duolingo, it would be Pól.

[Dominik71814]

How would you ask "Is he my lawyer?"