I've been irritated all day by my pathetic inability to translate the following simple sentences into Irish:

"Tell me where to put it."
"Tell me when to do it."

"Tell me how to do it" would be "Innis dom conas é a dhéanamh", unless I'm mistaken, so could it be something like "Innis dom cá háit é a chur"?


Go raibh maith agaibh.

Inis dom cá háit é a chuir
Inis dom cathain é a dhéanamh

("Abair liom" a bheadh agamsa)

Inis dom cén áit é a chur.

Inis dom cén uair é a dhéanamh.

Inis dom cén chaoi é a dhéanamh.

A Shéamais,tá súil agam go cabhraíonn sé sin leatsa,ach sílim go bhfuil an ceart ag Aonghus.James I hope this helps,but I think Aonghus is more correct.

To me your translations sound a bit like English translated word for word. I know many people use them now but they sound odd to me, as if something were missing.
I'd say :

Abair liom cá háit ar chóir é a chur.
Abair liom cá huair ba chóir é a dhéanamh.

or

Abair liom cá háit a gcuirfinn/gcuirfí é.
Abair liom cá huair a dhéanfainn/dhéanfaí é.

Is fearr iad le "cóir" ceart go leor, agus is maith liom na leaganacha úd freisin.

Go raibh maith agaibh go léir as bhur bhfreagraí.
It's the seemingly simple sentences that can be the most troublesome.