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Seamás91
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Username: Seamás91
Post Number: 263
Registered: 10-2009
| | Posted on Friday, July 23, 2010 - 07:48 am: |     |
What would the irish for 'why not' be? Or is there no negative form of this statement?
'mar ná beidh ár leithidí arís ann'
-Tomás O'Croitháin (An t-Oiléanach) |
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Aonghus
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Username: Aonghus
Post Number: 10057
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Friday, July 23, 2010 - 08:19 am: | |
Braitheann sé ar an abairt iomlán.
Ní féidir "why not" a rá leis féin.
Cén fáth ná/nach + briathair |
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Joe
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Username: Joe
Post Number: 61
Registered: 09-2009
| | Posted on Friday, July 23, 2010 - 03:39 pm: | |
Example:
Seán:Ba mhaith liom dul chuig na pictiúirí anocht.(I'd like to go to the cinema tonight)
Athair Sheáin: Tuige nach rachfá? (Why wouldn't you go?)
"Tuige" is a contraction of "Cad chuige" which is used as "Why" in many contexts.
Correct me if I'm wrong. |
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Aonghus
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Username: Aonghus
Post Number: 10058
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Friday, July 23, 2010 - 04:10 pm: | |
Tá sin iomlán ceart. |
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Runa
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Username: Runa
Post Number: 3
Registered: 06-2010
| | Posted on Friday, July 23, 2010 - 06:22 pm: | |
ta sin iomlan ceart is why not? |
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Séasán
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Username: Séasán
Post Number: 53
Registered: 06-2010
| | Posted on Friday, July 23, 2010 - 07:23 pm: | |
"Cad chuige nach.." an ea??
"If not,why not" - "Mura,cad chuige nach"
An mbeadh sé sin ceart? |
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Aonghus
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Username: Aonghus
Post Number: 10059
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, July 24, 2010 - 05:21 am: | |
Ní bheadh. Tá gá le briathair i gconaí, ar an cúis céanna nach féidir "Yes" ná "No" a thabhairt mar fhreagra ar cheist sa Ghaeilge. quote:ta sin iomlan ceart is why not? No. I was answering a question, by saying what Joe wrote is correct. |
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Runa
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Username: Runa
Post Number: 5
Registered: 06-2010
| | Posted on Thursday, July 29, 2010 - 04:03 am: | |
Tuige? |
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Aonghus
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Username: Aonghus
Post Number: 10077
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, July 29, 2010 - 05:41 am: | |
Tuige céard? Dúirt Joe quote:Correct me if I'm wrong. Ní raibh sé; mar sin dúirt mé sin. Nó "Tuige go bhfuil briathar de dhíth" Toisc gurbh é sin gnás na Gaeilge. |
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Seánw
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Username: Seánw
Post Number: 668
Registered: 07-2009
| | Posted on Thursday, July 29, 2010 - 09:19 am: | |
Cad chuige [nó cén fáth] nach ea, nach raibh, nach ndéanfadh, etc. (with repetition of appropriate form of verb) atá ag mo fhoclóir.
I ndiaidh a chéile a thógtar na caisleáin. |
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Macdara
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Username: Macdara
Post Number: 162
Registered: 09-2008
| | Posted on Friday, July 30, 2010 - 02:44 pm: | |
Why cant you use cén fath nach bhfuil/raibh.Though I dont know where you would go after with that?!You may need to use the verb in question arís.
Or just cén fath,or cad chuige.I have this problem myself. |
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Aonghus
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Username: Aonghus
Post Number: 10085
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Friday, July 30, 2010 - 03:24 pm: | |
quote:You may need to use the verb in question arís You must. An nach bhfuil needs an object. Cén fáth nach dtuigeann sibh sin?!  |
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Seamás91
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Username: Seamás91
Post Number: 269
Registered: 10-2009
| | Posted on Friday, July 30, 2010 - 05:00 pm: | |
'Cad ina taobh' nach dtuigeann sibh sin?
Can 'cad ina taobh' be used in that respect, a hAonghus?
'mar ná beidh ár leithidí arís ann'
-Tomás O'Croitháin (An t-Oiléanach) |
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Aonghus
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Username: Aonghus
Post Number: 10087
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Friday, July 30, 2010 - 05:11 pm: | |
cad ina thaobh (is mar canathaobh a scríobhtar go minic é)
Deir Ó Dónaill gur "what about it" nó "why" is ciall leis; mar sin is féidir.
Sílim gurbh é sin a déarfaí ó dheas. |
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Mbm
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Username: Mbm
Post Number: 301
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 04, 2010 - 03:44 pm: | |
I sometimes use "cén dochar" as a fuzzy equivalent of "why not". As in: "ar mhaith leat deoch eile? -- á cinnte, cén dochar!"
(Actually, what I say much more often than that is "cén fáth nach?" but I mean that sarcastically to annoy my purist friends and you should never ever say that in polite company, it's a filthy Anglicism.)
Mo bhlag sa seanchló Gaelach:
www.cainteoir.com |
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Aonghus
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Username: Aonghus
Post Number: 10097
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 04, 2010 - 04:39 pm: | |
quote:in polite company Cuimhneoidh mé ar sin.... |
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Sineadw
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Username: Sineadw
Post Number: 466
Registered: 06-2009
| | Posted on Thursday, August 05, 2010 - 10:40 am: | |
Thumbs up for the Cén dochar! :) A Conamara favourite- prob in other parts of na Gaeltachtaí too. |
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