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Drochfhuaimniú
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Username: Drochfhuaimniú
Post Number: 64
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 02:19 pm: |   
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Hey, my brother needs me to translate "be better" (in the general sense) and I am very unfamiliar with the subjunctive. I know it should probably start with "go raibh" but I have no idea how to work adverbs with that. Could a more advanced speaker help me out please?
Rinne Máire gáire gan náire ag an fhaire i nDoire anuraidh.
D'ith damh dubh ubh amh ar neamh.
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Pádraig
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Username: Pádraig
Post Number: 658
Registered: 09-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 02:36 pm: |
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Seems like "go raibh tú níos fearr" should come close if the occasion calls for wishing that someone's health improves.
Is ait an mac an saol.
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Mickrua
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Username: Mickrua
Post Number: 121
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 02:46 pm: |
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Could you please give us a hint of the context the term "be better is to be used"
i.e She could be better at maths= D'fhéad sí a bheith níos fearr ag uimhríocht(matamatic)
"Be better behaved!" = Bíodh béasaí níos fearr ort!/Iompair tú féin níos fearr!/Bíodh múineadh ort!
I am using Connacht Irish the terms I have always used and spoken for over 30 years. |
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Drochfhuaimniú
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Username: Drochfhuaimniú
Post Number: 65
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 02:47 pm: |
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He says it's not in the health sense, but in a general sense of being a better person. Does that help?
Rinne Máire gáire gan náire ag an fhaire i nDoire anuraidh.
D'ith damh dubh ubh amh ar neamh.
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Sean-Daithí (Unregistered Guest)
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| | Posted on Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 04:00 pm: |
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(Go dtaga) feabhas ort ???
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Good better best (Unregistered Guest)
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| | Posted on Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 04:12 pm: |
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Bíodh feabhas ort.
Let there be improvement on you.
Hope you're brother is better. |
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Lars
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Username: Lars
Post Number: 183
Registered: 08-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 05:27 pm: |
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"Be better!" is imperative, not subjunctive (which would be: "may you be better", go raibh tú níos fearr). So I'd say:
Bí níos fearr!
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Drochfhuaimniú
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Username: Drochfhuaimniú
Post Number: 66
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Monday, October 29, 2007 - 06:57 pm: |
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I appreciate all of the effort you guys have put in, but is there one translation you can all agree on? He'd like it for a tattoo, so I've got to make sure it's right.
The words of the prophets are written on the subway wall
And tenement halls
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Abigail
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Username: Abigail
Post Number: 581
Registered: 06-2006
| | Posted on Monday, October 29, 2007 - 07:17 pm: |
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Not unless he can be more precise about what it means!
Is it a command, or a wish? Addressed to one person, or more than one?
Be "better" in a moral sense, or enjoy better health, or improve your skill set, or what?
Are we describing a process (becoming better) or the end result?
Tá fáilte roimh chuile cheartú!
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Aonghus
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Username: Aonghus
Post Number: 6375
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - 12:18 pm: |
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Ah, the precision of english!  . |
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Fearn
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Username: Fearn
Post Number: 641
Registered: 06-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - 03:43 pm: |
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Aidhe! Is mór liom é mar theanga! |
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