"An bhfuil tú as do mheabhair?"

Translation: Are you out of your mind?

[irokie]

The audio clip for this puts a nice emphasis on it!

[AlisonLill3]

It's really cool when idioms translate across languages -- for instance, being "out of your mind" to mean crazy/irrational in both English and Irish! It would be awesome if Duolingo included more tips/explanations for the Irish course to let learners know when something is a common idiom in Irish, and when it's just a weird bot-generated sentence that sounds as bizarre in one language as it does in another.

[andyroo93]

Is this Bearlachas (accents are not trivial in Ubuntu so I don't use them)?

[TheresaMorgen]

This was tough for me, because mheabhair sounds just like leabhair. I guess you have to just listen to the context?

[19O492554]

mheabhair doesn't sound "just like leabhair",

The mh of mheabhair and the l of leabhair are completely different sounds.

[Padraigin18]

A new one for me, normally would use
An bhfuil tú amach as do cheann .. are you out of your head

[19O492554]

Dinneen included as a a mheabhair in his 1904 dictionary, so it's certainly not a new expression, but his translation was a somewhat milder "distracted".

[Feith9]

So what is the simple reply for "yes"?

[19O492554]

You repeat the verb to give an affirmative reply. As An bhfuil is the interrogative form of Tá, you reply with Tá or Táim to say "Yes".