"Experiments are done in the laboratory."
Translation:Déantar turgnaimh sa tsaotharlann.
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Should there be a 't' before 'saotharlann' or not? Both are given as the 'correct solution'.
The would t only come in (I believe) Connacht Irish, where sa eclipses and prefixes feminine nouns that start with s with a t
Thanks. I decided to look it up after reading your response. Apparently, 'sa lenites consonants b, c, g, m, p, and prefixes t to initial s of feminine noun; san lenites' (http://www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/i).
Note that that is only in the standard, and not all dialects lenite or prefix the t to feminine nouns. Gramadach na Gaeilge is much better than teanglann in regards to showing how grammar actually varies across dialects.
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Even the teanglann.ie description isn’t a complete answer; a T would only be prefixed to a feminine noun that begins with S followed by either L, N, R, or a vowel (for instance, one wouldn’t use sa tscuab).
