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Interrogative Pronouns.

243. The chief interrogative pronouns are:​—​cia or cé, who, which; cad, creud, or caidé, what; cé or ceurd (cia rud), what; cia leis, whose; cia aca (cioca), which of them, cé (or cia) agaiḃ, which of you.

Cé rinne é sin?		Who did that?
Cad atá agat?		What have you?
Cad é sin agat?		What is that you have?
Caidé atá ort? Cad tá ort?	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	What ails you?
Cé aca is fearr? Cioca is fearr?	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	Which of them is the better?
Cia an fear?		Which or what man?
Cia na fir?		Which men?
Cia an luaċ?		What price?
Caidé an rud é sin?		What is that?
Cé leis an leaḃar?		Whose is the book?

244. Notice in the last sentence the peculiar position of the words. The interrogative pronoun always comes first in an Irish sentence, even when it is governed by a preposition in English. In Irish we do not say “With whom (is) the book?” but “Who with him (is) the book?”