Gaeilge: Where do you want to live?
How do you say the following?
Where do you want to live?
I want to live in Hatfield, Massachusetts.
Perhaps...
Cén áit ar mhaith leat a bheith i do chónaí? / Cén áit a bhfuil tú ag iarraidh bheith i do chónaí?
Is mhaith liom a bheith i mo chónaí i Hatfield i Massachusetts.
I'm guessing you would need to use "cén áit" plus an indirect relative clause here instead of "cá háit" plus an indirect relative clause, right? I wonder if the difference is that the former is asking the place where you want to do something and the latter is asking where you experience the feelings of desire for doing something. Also, what about "a" before "bheith"? I keep forgetting when I should include this in sentences.
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Gaeilge: Where do you want to live?
How do you say the following?Where do you want to live?
I want to live in Hatfield, Massachusetts.
Perhaps...
Cén áit ar mhaith leat a bheith i do chónaí? / Cén áit a bhfuil tú ag iarraidh a bheith i do chónaí?
Is Ba mhaith liom a bheith i mo chónaí i Hatfield i Massachusetts.
I'm guessing you would need to use "cén áit" plus an indirect relative clause here instead of "cá háit" plus an indirect relative clause, right? I wonder if the difference is that the former is asking the place where you want to do something and the latter is asking where you experience the feelings of desire for doing something. Also, what about "a" before "bheith"? I keep forgetting when I should include this in sentences.
Good attempt. You could use either cén áit or cá háit without really changing the meaning.
A is almost always used before bheith, but in speech it's very often elided and even native speakers don't always bother to write it.
Rebecca's suggestion, Cá mhaith leat a bheith i do chónaí?, to me would mean something like "How is it that you would you like to live...?", but it sounds a bit strange, with this construction it would be more usual to use the preposition do: Cá maith duit a bheith i do chónaí ansin?, meaning "What good is it to you to live there?"
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I'm not sure since it's been a long time since I studied Irish but I would say "Cá mhaith leat a bheith i do chónaí?"
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