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Apart from Donegal, you won't really find the analytic first person singular present anywhere outside of the verbs tá and bíonn. Even in Donegal, the synthetic is best.

Also, you don't have to repeat the pronoun (unless it is one with the analytic form).

An gcanann sé? Canann.

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> Apart from Donegal, you won't really find the analytic first person singular anywhere outside of the verbs tá and bíonn

Have you mixed up analytic and synthetic? Analytic = Canann mé, Synthetic = canaim. Ulster irish generally tends toward analytic (similar to Scottish Gaelic actually), and Munster tends toward the Synthetic.

> Also, you don't have to repeat the pronoun (unless it is one with the analytic form).

True, but I didn't want to complicate it any further than it already was.

No, the synthetic first person singular present tense is still more prevalent, even in Donegal. Overall, yes, Donegal (the only living Ulster dialects, as I'm sure you're aware) tends towards analytic, but they're not that common in some tenses. An Teanga Bheo: Gaeilge Uladh (horrible name, East Ulster was very different from Donegal!) mentions that you can say canann mé but that canaim is still preferred. Same with a few of the persons in the conditional mood.

Ah yeah, that makes sense. I glossed over "first person singular" in the part I quoted.

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