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Odwyer
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Username: Odwyer
Post Number: 218
Registered: 05-2006
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If you want to say you are something, like a quality, you would use "orm" (on me). To say "I'm tired" in a sort of literal traslation would go as thus: There is tired on me.
My question is, would "tiredness" or "tired" used as the Irish replacement?
Ceartaígí mo chuid Ghaeilge, le bhur dtoil!
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Antaine
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Username: Antaine
Post Number: 871
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Monday, October 02, 2006 - 09:59 pm: |
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I think of it as "fatigue" - there is fatigue upon me |
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Odwyer
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Username: Odwyer
Post Number: 220
Registered: 05-2006
| | Posted on Monday, October 02, 2006 - 10:02 pm: |
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What about sad and sadness etc. then?
Ceartaígí mo chuid Ghaeilge, le bhur dtoil!
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Abigail
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Username: Abigail
Post Number: 80
Registered: 06-2006
| | Posted on Monday, October 02, 2006 - 10:47 pm: |
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Adjectives can't be used in this kind of construction -- only nouns. So, for instance:
Tá brón orm -- There is sorrow on me
Tá tart orm -- There is thirst on me
Tá ocras orm -- There is hunger on me
srl.
Abigail
Tá fáilte roimh chuile cheartú!
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| | Posted on Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - 07:04 am: |
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What about bronach? - fear bronach a sorrowful man |
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Aonghus
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Username: Aonghus
Post Number: 3828
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - 08:33 am: |
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But you cannot say
"Tá brónach ar an bhfear"
only
"Tá an fear brónach"
or
"Tá brón ar an bhfear" |
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Aonghus
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Username: Aonghus
Post Number: 3829
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - 08:34 am: |
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Or "Is fear brónach é" | Tá an fear brónach | The man is sad | | Tá brón ar an bhfear | The man is sorry | | Is fear brónach é | he is a sad man |
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Suaimhneas
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Username: Suaimhneas
Post Number: 53
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - 09:37 am: |
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Is fear brónach é
Is brónach an adjective in that case? |
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Aonghus
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Username: Aonghus
Post Number: 3832
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - 10:59 am: |
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Aidiacht atá ann i gconaí! brón [ainmfhocal firinscneach den chéad díochlaonadh] buairt nó trioblóid aigne, aithreachas. Foirmeacha Dírithe : brónach [aidiacht den chéad díochlaonadh] Foirmeacha brón - ainmfhocal brón [ainmneach uatha] bróin [ginideach uatha]
One more for the list | Is brónach an fear é | he is a (particularly) sad man |
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Wee_falorie_man
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Username: Wee_falorie_man
Post Number: 78
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - 11:35 am: |
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Also: Fear brónach is ea é. |
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Lughaidh
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Username: Lughaidh
Post Number: 1445
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - 09:10 pm: |
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Also: is brónach an fear é (he is a sad man),
"Fear brónach is ea é" is a Munster sentence.
In Donegal, people say "Fear brónach atá ann", maybe there are still other ways to say it.
Tír Chonaill abú!
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Odwyer
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Username: Odwyer
Post Number: 221
Registered: 05-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - 10:09 pm: |
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Ok thank you!
Ceartaígí mo chuid Ghaeilge, le bhur dtoil!
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