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"What is the emergency?"
Translation:Cad í an éigeandáil?
August 12, 2015
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The Gramadach na Gaeilge site offers this exception to agreement in gender:
- Subpredicates and other pronouns together with interrogatives are mostly masculine: Cé hé an bhean sin? = Who is that woman? Always masculine are prepositional pronouns with interrogatives: Cé aige a raibh an ginmhilleadh? = Who had the abortion?
Under which circumstances would feminine subpredicates be used with interrogatives?
EDIT: §13.23 of Graiméar Gaeilge na mBráithre Críostaí only offers this clarification situation as an example where a feminine subpredicate would be used with an interrogative:
Peadar: An bhfaca tú í ?
Pól: Céard (cad) í ?
Peadar: Mo scian.