dia daoibh aríst (apologies for all the questions but a lot are coming to me today)

If I wanted to say "That is the son whose father works with me" would it be "Is é sin an mac a n-oibríonn a athair liom"

Again, apologies for all the similar questions but Indirect Rel Clause gives me trouble so I always want to double check so I'm not just practicing bad habits.

Though how would I say "the son of the man with whom I work" ? "mac an fhir a oibrím leis" ? nó rud éigin ?

GRMA

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mac an fhir a n-oibrím leis.

You always use the indirect relative when your English sentence has "whose, with whom, with which" etc, or when you have a preposition at the end (the man I talk TO).
The direct relative is used when you have "who(m)" alone (not who... to/with/on etc) or "that" alone (not "that... to" etc).

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I'll try remember that. Has been a stumbling block for me up till now.

Apologies for brining up an old thread but it's relevant to the question so thought it'd make more sense to revive this as opposed to starting a new one.

I had the chance to write an essay and hand it in for correction. The marker has a high level of Irish and when I got my essay back there was one or two corrections.

The one I wanted to ask about is as follows; "Ba é gasúr an fhir a n-oibrím leis é" (corrections in red).

Why the extra "é"? It'll be a while before I see them again to ask so thought i'd ask here.

GRMA

Labhrás once answered the question comprehensively for me back in February or March.
When a third person pronoun is one of the parties in a copula sentence (think "is/ní/an"), you must repeat it.
So:
Is é mo dheartháir é / An iad do chairde iad? / Ní hí m'iníon í
é = mo dheartháir
As opposed to Is é mo dheartháir an duine ag canadh
mo dheartháir = an duine ag canadh (the pronoun is not one of the parties)

If you just have Is é mo dheartháir then it means "My brother is..." whereas Is é mo dheartháir é means "He is my brother"

So Ba é gasúr an fhir a n-oibrím leis means "The man I work with's son was..." while Ba é gasúr an fhir a n-oibrím leis é means "He was the man I work with's son"

Ba é gasúr an fhir a n-oibrím leis could also be followed by any other noun or pronoun. Like Ba é gasúr an fhir a n-oibrím leis an duine a d'ól an méid is mó fíona
Or just é... but never nothing

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