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HELP IRISH TRANSLATIONS

  • 23-09-2009 6:00pm
    #1
    fiona12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 99 ✭✭


    I'm losing the will to live here! Trying to help 1st year with irish homework and need the following translated please


    a hoige
    ar n-ait dhuchais
    a heochracha

    Many thanks!


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  • #2
    lasair
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 514 ✭✭✭lasair


    a hóige- her youth
    ar n-ait dhuchais- the place where we hail from/ where we come from/ where we were born.
    a heochracha- her keys

    presuming this is grammar tell them that the úrú "h/n" comes before the guta (vowel) as a is a vowel and 2 vowels require úrú when coming together...


  • #3
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,939 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    her youth,
    our native place
    her keys.


  • #4
    bob11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 470 ✭✭bob11


    http://translate.google.com/translate_t#ga|en|%20heochracha%0D%0A

    Google translate now does Irish to English translations !!!


  • #5
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,939 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    lasair, can you correct me on this, i'm wondering...

    if the word begins with a consonant, say gluaistean, when it's his car, is it 'a ghluaistean,' whereas for her car, it's 'a gluaistean'

    and then the opposite for words beginning with vowels, as in this case
    'a heochracha' would mean her keys and 'a eochracha' would mean his keys?

    or was i just not paying enough attention??


  • #6
    rororoyourboat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 217 ✭✭rororoyourboat


    I'm with ballsymchugh on this!

    her youth
    our native place
    her keys

    pretty sure this is it:D


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  • #7
    lasair
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 514 ✭✭✭lasair


    No your right and good question....

    "a" when it means him takes a "h" as it is masculine where as "a" for females doesn.
    yup, the opposite for vowels...

    if you want any grammer notes/help pm me (irish teacher)and il send some to you either my email or snail mail...


  • #8
    John Mason
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 10,661 ✭✭✭✭John Mason


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=904

    The Gaegile Forum could help in the future


  • #9
    NextSteps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 984 ✭✭✭NextSteps


    Try www.focal.ie as well, of course.


  • #10
    fiona12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 99 ✭✭fiona12


    Thank you all again for all your help, all his homework was correct thanks to you!

    As I am foreign, I find it very hard to help.

    :)


  • #11
    luckat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭luckat


    fiona12 wrote: »
    Thank you all again for all your help, all his homework was correct thanks to you!

    As I am foreign, I find it very hard to help.

    :)

    What a good mammy!

    If you're interested, you could probably find a good Irish course in your local tech - or if you want to go for the heavy stuff, do the intensive course Gael-Linn runs, which will give you the basics in a few weeks. (http://www.gael-linn.ie/glinn/LearnIrish.aspx)


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