So, Ar mhaith leat fuisce a cheannach? means Would you like to buy whiskey? / Do you want to buy whiskey?, right? So how would you address a group of people to ask who among them would want to instead? So, Who wants/would like to buy whiskey? I don't see any sentence patterns of this form in any of the grammar books I have. My initial guess is that it would need to use cé leis at the beginning of the question, but I could be wrong. Much appreciated in advance.

Ar mhaith libh....

No, the books never solve the trickier ones - in any language.

I think it would be "Cé agaibh ar mhaith libh fuisce a cheannach?" or "Cé (agaibh) atá ag iarraidh fuisce a cheannach?"



Like the grammar books, that doesn't quite answer the question, Gumbi.

i'd rather say "Cé agaibh ar mhaith leis fuisce a cheannach?".

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'Tis a much nicer way of saying it indeed!

So would I. I had wondered whether 'le' should agree with 'agaibh' or 'cé', and if 'cé', whether it should be singular or plural. Instinct and logic said it should agree with 'cé', but I heard a native speaker on 'Barrscéalta' a few days ago say "Cé againne nár mhian linn..." so, applying your philosophy that if a native speaker says it, then it must be alright , I went with 'libh'.



'Tis not whether 'tis "nicer" but whether 'tis "grammaticaler"

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Not reading stuff as usual

I see. But maybe it was a mistake in the flow of the sentence. Sometimes in a conversation you say things that are wrong and that you wouldn't say twice but well, once it's said it's too late If the speaker said it several times, then it would be correct in his dialect.

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