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the craic!

  • 21-07-2009 03:36PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 480 ✭✭


    Hey, I've got just a quick question,

    If you want to say "the craic" as gaeilge, does it become,

    an chraic

    Or do you just leave it...
    is it even ok to say "an chraic"? (using the definite article). it sounds a little odd to me.

    either way,
    is maith liom an chraic!!! :)


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 942 ✭✭✭An gal gréine


    Yup, it's "an chraic".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,912 ✭✭✭pog it


    Ya'll hear 'great craic' (an-chraic!) being said too.

    'very/great' is expressed by 'an-' and it gets the hyphen between it and the noun) so the hyphen will show the 'an' doesn't mean 'the'.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 480 ✭✭Jay Pentatonic


    Cool, I guess that sorts that one out!
    Thanks guys! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 236 ✭✭jamesnp


    Just to clear it up:

    the craic = an craic Bhí an craic nocha The craic was ninety
    great craic = an-chraic Bhí sé an-chraic go deo It was great craic altogether

    -jp


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,653 ✭✭✭conchubhar1


    ye it is masculine so no h with the definite article (an)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 634 ✭✭✭Míshásta


    ye it is masculine so no h with the definite article (an)

    Why do you say it's masculine. Most if not all words in this form are feminine in Irish. An Foclóir Beag and Ó Dónaill has it feminine.

    Despite many people thinking it's an old Irish term it's actually a loan word from English slang.

    "An Chraic" déarfainn.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 480 ✭✭Jay Pentatonic


    Yeah, my dictionary said it was feminine as well, that's why I started this whole thread, because, until recently, I never saw "an chraic" before, so I was just making sure :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 236 ✭✭jamesnp


    Jay1989 wrote: »
    Yeah, my dictionary said it was feminine as well, that's why I started this whole thread, because, until recently, I never saw "an chraic" before, so I was just making sure :pac:

    Just checked an foclóir beag... and sure enough it says feminine. I'm not sure now to be honest. My instinct is that it's masculine, though.

    -jp


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 634 ✭✭✭Míshásta


    Muna thagraíonn ainmfhocal do shlí bheatha nó do cháilíocht, má chríochnaíonn sé ar chonsan caol bíonn sé baininscneach de ghnáth. De réir mar a thuigimsa ar aon nós.

    Ach bíodh an c(h)raic firinscinneach nó baininscneach, 'sé an rud is tábhachtaí ná go mbaineann sibh sult agus taitneamh as/aisti. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 634 ✭✭✭Míshásta


    Jay1989 wrote: »
    I never saw "an chraic" before, :pac:

    de réir an Uasail Gúgail:

    Torthaí 11 - 20 as timpeall 1,870 le haghaidh "an chraic".

    Torthaí 1 - 10 as timpeall 4,720 le haghaidh "an craic".


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,653 ✭✭✭conchubhar1


    ah i fell into the trap of seeing ''f'' written down, by meself aswel lol, and not reliasing I had wrote ''f'' and ''b''

    so ye it is feminine - so technically it is still ''an chraic''

    my bad


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