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Hugo75
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Username: Hugo75
Post Number: 23
Registered: 02-2011
| | Posted on Saturday, April 09, 2011 - 09:47 am: |     |
Would you rather say :
dúirt mé go raibh tú bomanta aréir
dúirt mé aréir go raibh tú bómánta |
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Croga75
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Username: Croga75
Post Number: 224
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, April 09, 2011 - 10:18 am: | |
I said that you were dumb(?) least night
I said last night that you were dumb(?)
The same, with different emphesis is all, to me anyway
Ní bhfaighir faisnéis mara ndeinir fiafraí. |
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Hugo75
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Username: Hugo75
Post Number: 24
Registered: 02-2011
| | Posted on Saturday, April 09, 2011 - 11:16 am: | |
according to "irish dictionnary online", bómánta can also mean "stupid" |
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Croga75
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Username: Croga75
Post Number: 227
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, April 09, 2011 - 11:43 am: | |
ah, cool, I was mearly guessing at 'dumb' as in Ó Dónaill it gave 'slow-witted'
Ní bhfaighir faisnéis mara ndeinir fiafraí. |
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Eadaoin
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Username: Eadaoin
Post Number: 107
Registered: 02-2009
| | Posted on Sunday, April 10, 2011 - 02:01 pm: | |
I said that you were dumb(?) least night
I said last night that you were dumb(?)
the second sentence is clear in English - (it was last night that I said it)
the first one could/does mean - I said at some stage, maybe a few minutes ago "you were dumb last night"
so not quite the same - and maybe a bit different in Irish too?
eadaoin |
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Croga75
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Username: Croga75
Post Number: 228
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, April 10, 2011 - 02:16 pm: | |
wouldnt "it was last night that I said it" be:
'B'aréir adúrt é' or something along those line?
Ní bhfaighir faisnéis mara ndeinir fiafraí. |
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