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Cait
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Username: Cait
Post Number: 47
Registered: 09-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 11, 2005 - 10:27 am: |   
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Dia duit ar maidin. An bhfuil tú go maith? Feiceann tú beagan glas. An bhfuil maith leat uisce? Aran?
Sorry its so basic but I was trying to see what I could remember off the top of my head.
Go raibh maith agaibh!
Cait. |
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Aonghus
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Username: Aonghus
Post Number: 729
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 11, 2005 - 11:17 am: |
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Feiceann tú beagan glas.
Tá cuma mílítheach (pale) ort.
Tá cuma tinn (ill) ort?
(You look green I have never heard in Irish!).
An bhfuil Ar mhaith leat uisce? Aran?
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Cait
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Username: Cait
Post Number: 48
Registered: 09-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 12, 2005 - 12:14 pm: |
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Go raibh maith agat!
Sometimes I have the hardest time with idioms...so instead of "you look green"...in irish we say "a pale look is on you"...but I have a question about "tá cuma tinn ort?"...shouldn't the "tá" be "an bhfuil" or something? |
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Aonghus
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Username: Aonghus
Post Number: 733
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 12, 2005 - 04:36 pm: |
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Cáit,
I dislike word for word translations.
Also "Feiceann tú" is "you see"
Probably you meant "Féachann tú" - but that means you look (at something) rather than "you appear"
Cuma is appearance (in this case)
The question mark is a typo on my part - it ought to have been "tá cuma tinn ort." If it were a question then it would have been "An bhfuil cuma tinn ort?" - but one would likely ask "An bhfuil tú tinn?" |
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Aonghus
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Username: Aonghus
Post Number: 735
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 12, 2005 - 04:56 pm: |
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Although, now that I think of it, you could say "Tá tú ag féachaint go holc" |
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