Hello to all Gaelic speakers.

I'd like help in translating the following passage:

The one I told I loved, answered me that she needs time.

Thanks a lot in advance.

Do you mean Irish or Scots Gaelic?

In Irish:

An té a dúirt mé lei go raibh grá agam di, d'fhreagair sí go raibh am de dhíth uirthi.

That's a literal translation, but it is more wordy in Irish than the original.

Grammatical correction:

An té a ndúirt mé léi go raibh grá agam di, d’fhreagair sí go raibh am de dhíth uirthi.


Donegal Irish:

An té ar úrt mé léithe go rabh grá agam daoithe, d’fhreagair sí go rabh am de dhíth uirthi.


Scots Gaelic:

An tè an tuirt mi rithe gu robh gaol agam oirre, d'fhreagair i gu robh àm de dhìth oirre.

(Message edited by Lughaidh on May 27, 2005)

(Message edited by Lughaidh on May 27, 2005)

Thanks a million.

Yes, I wanted it in Irish. Seeing the translation I have to ask - is because of Irish sentence construction that you can't omit 'sí' in 'd'fhreagair sí'?

Cause the pronoun is not needed in English and for the reason it's already mentioned in the main phrase.

Now another question about 'a ndúirt' - is it because it's an irregular verb that a and not ar is used?

Thanks again

>Yes, I wanted it in Irish. Seeing the translation I >have to ask - is because of Irish sentence construction >that you can't omit 'sí' in 'd'fhreagair sí'?

The sentence wouldn't be clear if u omit "sí"

>Now another question about 'a ndúirt' - is it because it's an irregular verb that a and not ar is used?

Exactly. In Donegal, it's regular in this point: ar úrt, because "dúirt" is understood as "d’ú(i)rt".

GRMMA, A Lughadh.

Hi Lughaidh,

The Scottish Gaelic you gave is pretty good, but not entirely accurate:

>> An tè an tuirt mi rithe gu robh gaol agam oirre, d'fhreagair i gu robh àm de dhìth oirre.

Most important, in Irish you can choose between these two:

a) an duine a bhfuil mé ag caint leis

b) an duine lena bhfuil mé ag caint

But in Scottish Gaelic only the (b) syntax is acceptable. So:

An tè ris an duirt mi gu robh gaol agam oirre, fhreagair i...

Tá tú a m’fhoghlaim, a Dhonncha... Shíl mé gurbh fhéidir an dá abairt a ráidht. Grma.

Lughaidh, ar mhaithe liomsa, an bhfeadfá cló dearg a úsáid dos na litreacha a d'fhagas ar lár, le'd thoil? "\ red { } " an cleas, ach iad a bheith scríofa le chéile mar seo

an "n" i "a ndúirt" an botún a rinneas, an ea?

Here's a verse from a song (Dúlamán) which we might turn to account to getter a better phrase:

Ó chuir mé scéala chuici
Go gceannóinn cíor dí
'Sé an scéal a chuir sí chugam
Go raibh a ceann cíortha

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So how about:

Ó chuir mé scéala chuici
Go raibh grá agam dí
'Sé an scéal a chuir sí chugam
go raibh am uirthi de dhíth

Some poetic license in rearranging the last line, but I think it works.

Scríobhtar "di" (do + sí) le i gairid - tá sin sa chaighdeán oifigiúil (cibé ’r bith, i dTír Chonaill deireann muid "daoithe"...)

Ok a Aonghuis, ach níl ’s agam níos mó cad é mar a chuirtear dath dearg ar fhoclaí.

Is fíor sin. Sciob mé na focail ó suíomh eile.

Do mhínigh mé thuas conas dath dearg a chuir ar focla!

"\ red { } " an cleas, ach iad a bheith scríofa le chéile mar seo

Chan oibreann sé: "\red {Iarracht}"

Fág an spás idir "red" agus "{" ar lár iarracht eile

Breis eolais anseo (lean an nasc)

(Message edited by aonghus on May 31, 2005)

Oibreann sé! go rabh míle maith agat a chara ! :)

Go ndeanaí maith dhuit (nó Fáilte romhat)

"Go ndéana sé maith duit" atá cloiste agam, ach feicim go bhfuil leagan eile, "go ndéana a mhaith duit", ag FGB. "Go ndéana" an litriú atá ag teastáil anseo pé scéal é, ós é an foshuiteach láithreach atá ann. Úsáidtear an foirceann -aí le briathra ar nós "beannaigh" a chríochnaíonn le -igh: Go mbeannaí Dia duit!

In Donegal we say "go ndéanaí a mhaith duit", with this pronounciation, and i'm sure of it because i've heard it both from Micheál O Murchú (Irish professor at Coleraine University) and in the Gaeltacht.

Chualas fhéin ar RnaG inné é, agus is dá bhrí sin a bhain mé usáid as. Bhí snáth fhada (achrannach) againn ar an abhár tamall ó shin - Fáilte romhat a bheadh agamsa de ghnáth.