Cén fáth déanann "go" teag sol má roinnt briathar? Cuidiú le do thoil.

Le do thoil ceartaigh mo Ghaeilge!

Agus... Ceárd is brí litriúil "Ach a oiread"?

Go raibh maith agat

Ach an oiread - either

"Cén fáth déanann "go" teag sol má roinnt briathar"

You've lost me, I'm afraid.

Cén fáth go ndéanann "go" ? ? ? roinnt briathar

why does "go" ? ? ? some verbs?

I think he meant "Why does "go" come before certain verbs?" (bhí ort an abairt a dh’aistriú go Béarla focal ar fhocal ;-) ).

The right sentence would be
"Cén fáth a mbíonn "go" roimh roinnt briathra?".
"Sol má" is only used before verbs, never before nouns.

O Dwyer, could you please give examples, because there are many contexts in which you would have "go" before verbs, and there are several "go"'s...

Ach a oiread means "except its amount" literally.

"Cén fáth" is normally followed by "a + eclipsis". Using "go" instead of it is a Munsterism... but in Munster, "why" is "cad ina thaobh", so "cén fáth go" is kinda mix of dialects.

I think he meant "Why does "go" come before certain verbs?"

Yeah, that's what I meant. Sometimes "go" appears before verbs, why is this?

In English sometimes "that" appears before verbs.
Deir sé go bhfuil ocras air = He says that he is hungry.

In wishes "go" with subjunctive renders English "may":
Go raibh maith agat = May good be at you (lit.: That be good at you)

That's it. Except some instances where "go" means "until" and some other idiomatic usages.

(Message edited by Lars on July 25, 2006)

I think "go", in this question, is the 'dependant verbal particle'; which causes eclipse. It translates as "that" when used in this way.

Mar sampla.
Cheapim go dthiocfadh sé linn. I thought (that) he'd come with us.

The dependant form is one which cannot stand alone as a statement.

The independant form can stand by itself as a statement. And it is with the independant form where the particle "a" - meaning 'that, which or who/whom' is attached to the beginning of the verb which is also lenited*.

Mar sampla.
Cheapim go raibh sé an fear athiocfadh linn. I thought (that) he was the man who would come with us.

* Except with the autonomous form.

GRMA!