Hi everyone, I was wondering if anyone can tell me if the imperative can be used in question forms?

An example in real life - 'let's get your socks' - 'faighimís do chuid stocaí'.
So if I wanted to say, 'will we get your socks?', I can say, 'an bhfaighimíd do chuid stocaí?'.
But is it an option to say something like 'an bhfaighimís do chuid stocaí?' to express something like 'will/should we get your socks?'
Or would that just straight up be interpreted as 'would we/didn't we used to get your socks?'

I consulted Lars's grammar guide (here) but didn't see interrogative + imperative usage mentioned, so I presume it's not a runner, but thanks for any guidance.

Not in normal questions with "an".
Questions and commands are usually contradictionary.

So, "An bhfaighimis ...?" means "Would we get ...?" (imperfect / past habitual tense)

But in the linked grammar, there are at least questions (in the form of imperative sentences with or without question tags) in first person singular:

Probably these could be used in first person plural, too: Fanaimis ...? Cuirimis ...? Faighimis ...?

Thank you!


Oooooh possibly, in this instance do you know if it would be intonation that marks the phrase as a question?

An ólfá deoch? - would you drink a drink? - is a kind of imperative as it is similar to "let's have a drink", but more like "how about a drink?"

Yes, it would (though intonation differs less than in English - just a pitch at the end)

Thank you all!