"Do you help or does he help?"
Translation:An gcabhraíonn sibh nó an gcabhraíonn sé?
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I'm wondering as well. I hot this wrong using one, and the answer they gave used one of each of the others.
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cabhair is a noun meaning "assistance"
cabhraíonn is a verb meaning "help". an gcabhraíonn tú = "do you help" This is the "correct" answer.
cabhraír is an alternative to cabhraíonn tú (along the lines of cabhraím / cabhraíonn mé). It's the usual form in Munster, but considered old-fashioned elsewhere - although you do hear it outside Munster. I think this answer should be accepted as an alternative, but Duolingo might not - it could cause confusion when no mention is made of it in the notes!
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I checked in the Incubator, and yes, tú is accepted as an alternative to sibh in this sentence :)
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"sibh" is the plural (many) form of you, and "tú" is the singular (one) form of you.
I was just marked wrong for answering both Sibh and Tú. It said the "correct" answer was Sibh. There seems to be a double standard, for in the very next lesson I saw that in the sentence "I listen to the woman who speaks about you", both Sibh and Tú were correct. How does one report these things? I was using the Android App, which doesn't have any feedback means.
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Why is there a g before 'cabhraíonn'? Is there a name given to the grammar rule for the g or something else?
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This is an example of eclipsis, a grammar rule and initial mutation you would have been introduced to early in the tree (In the Eclipsis skill, right next to lenition and represented by a cog). In the present tense verbs are eclipsed (if possible) after the interrogative particle"an"
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the problem with your answer wasn't the tu/sibh. The problem is that you did not put "an" before the verb. without the "an," it is just a statement, like if you left out the "do" in the english sentence.
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I was marked wrong for "An gcabhraíonn tú nó an gcabhraíonn sé" it said I should have used sibh. I reported it as either should be accepted as there is no context to determine plural or singular.