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Domhnall_Ó_h_aireachtaigh
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Username: Domhnall_Ó_h_aireachtaigh
Post Number: 142
Registered: 09-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, March 24, 2007 - 10:52 pm: |   
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I'm familiar with the usage "Ba mhaith liom" for "I want" or "I'd like" this or that.
However, what if, for example, a child wanted to say "I want my mommy."
Would it really be "ba maith liom mammai"?
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Lughaidh
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Username: Lughaidh
Post Number: 1565
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, March 25, 2007 - 09:27 am: |
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Maybe "tá Mamaí de dhíth orm" or "tá Mamaí uaim", etc, or "ba mhaith liom Mamaí a bheith liom"...
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Eoin
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Username: Eoin
Post Number: 184
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, March 25, 2007 - 09:29 am: |
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Vhualla mé: Tá mo mhamaí uaim! agus Tá mé ag iarraidh mo Mhamaí! fiú...
Bíonn "ag iarraidh" an-choitianta sna Gaelscoileanna!
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Eoin
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Username: Eoin
Post Number: 185
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, March 25, 2007 - 09:30 am: |
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Chuala...ní Vhuala...maith dhom!
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Lughaidh
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Username: Lughaidh
Post Number: 1566
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, March 25, 2007 - 09:40 am: |
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Ní bhíonn "ag iarraidh" gomh coitianta sa Ghaeltacht agus atá sé sna Gaelscoltacha... tá Gaeilg na Gaeltachta i bhfad níos saibhre, dar liom.
Ar tús, iarraidh = to try ; to ask. Cf foclóir Uí Dhónaill. Níl "want" ar bith le fáilt mar chiall do "iarr(aidh)" féin.........
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Pádraig
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Username: Pádraig
Post Number: 418
Registered: 09-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, March 25, 2007 - 11:53 am: |
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How about "Táim i ngá mo mhammai?" Or would that be a bit too adult sounding to be coming from a child?
Ní maith é an duine a bheith leis féin.
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Dennis
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Username: Dennis
Post Number: 2949
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, March 25, 2007 - 12:05 pm: |
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quote:"Táim i ngá mo mhammaí?" It would be rather stilted coming from anyone's mouth, pretty much equivalent to "I am in need of my mommy." ;-)
"An seanchas gearr,
an seanchas is fearr."
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Pádraig
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Username: Pádraig
Post Number: 421
Registered: 09-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, March 25, 2007 - 07:50 pm: |
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I thought so too. But what's the concensus? What do well spoken Irish toddlers say?
Ní maith é an duine a bheith leis féin.
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Dennis
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Username: Dennis
Post Number: 2950
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, March 25, 2007 - 09:07 pm: |
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quote:Ní bhíonn "ag iarraidh" gomh coitianta sa Ghaeltacht... Tá sé an-choitianta i nGaeltacht amháin, áfach... a' Ghaidhealtachd atá mé a rá.  In Scottish Gaelic the most common way of expressing "want" is with "ag iarraidh": Dè a tha thu ag iarraidh? = Céard atá uait? = What do you want?
"An seanchas gearr,
an seanchas is fearr."
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Lughaidh
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Username: Lughaidh
Post Number: 1567
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Monday, March 26, 2007 - 04:11 am: |
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Tha fhios agam, a charaid ! ;-)
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BRN (Unregistered Guest)
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| | Posted on Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - 03:20 pm: |
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Another bit from Braesicke, for when you don't have pacific feeback from the board:
I want ...
form of bí + object + ó + subject*
Tá braon fuisce uaim = I want some whiskey (lit.: "is a drop of whiskey from me")
form of bí + ó + subject* + VN/go
Tá uaim fuisce a ól = I want to drink whiskey (lit.: "is from me, whiskey to drink")
Teastaíonn + object + ó + subject*
Teastaíonn arán uaidh = He wants/needs bread (lit.: "is need of bread from him")
Teastaíonn + ó + subject* + VN/go
Teastaíonn uaim fuisce a ól = I want to drink whiskey (lit.: "need from me, whiskey to drink")
copula is + mian / áil + le + subject* + object/VN/go
Is mian liom é a dhéanamh = I want/wish, to do it (lit.: "is desire with-me, it to do"
"mian" can as the desired object also be carried as the genitive attribute : mian a dhéanta = desire, to do it (lit.: "desire of its doing") |
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