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Gorm_gealach
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Username: Gorm_gealach

Post Number: 2
Registered: 07-2006
Posted on Wednesday, August 16, 2006 - 05:35 pm:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post
I would like translate a gaelic phrase to english
Can You Help Me?

Cén fath deánamh mo croí mothú amhlaidh olc?


THANKS
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Pangur_dubh
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Post Number: 121
Registered: 03-2006


Posted on Wednesday, August 16, 2006 - 05:42 pm:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post
Gorm-Gealach,

It would be helpful to know where you got this phrase from. It lacks a verb. Literally it says:

"What the reason (why) making/doing my heart feeling thus bad?"

As you can see, the sense is defective in Irish and in the English translation I have given.
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