The way you ask someone’s name varies from dialect to dialect:

Cén t-ainm atá ort? (Connacht dialect)
What’s your name?

Cad is ainm duit? (Munster dialect)
What’s your name?

C’ainm atá ort? (Ulster dialect)
What’s your name?

Again, you only have to choose one of the above sentences and learn how to say it properly. For the rest of this unit, however, we’re going to use the Connacht dialect version.

When someone introduces himself before asking someone else his/her name, the different version of dom referred to on the last screen is used. Note that ort changes to ortsa as well:

Máirtín is ainm domsa. Cén t-ainm atá ortsa?
My name is Máirtín. What’s your name?

Domsa and ortsa are known as emphatic forms. In English you can stress words like my and your but you can’t do the same in Irish – you must use these special forms instead.