Counties and countries Speaking

Can you talk about your place of birth, nationality and the countries you have visited? Use the countries, counties and nationalities on the previous pages to get you started.

Generally, there are two ways of answering the question above, depending on the country.

If the country takes a ‘an’ before it we use ‘chun na ____’.

When the country has no ‘an’, we use ‘go______’.

Counties always take ‘go’.

Examples:

chun na Gréige

chun na hAstráile

chun na Breataine Bige

chun na Fraince

chun na hIodáile

go Ceanada

go Sasana

go hÉirinn

go Meiriceá

go hAlbain

go hAontroim

go Dún na nGall

go Tír Eoghain

go Fear Manach

go Baile Átha Cliath