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'I love you' in Irish

  • 11-05-2010 7:31pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,113 ✭✭✭


    Friends of mine from Poland want to put this on their wedding rings.
    'taim i' ngra leat' (should have fadas I know) just doesn't really seem right. My sister suggested 'tá grá orm duit'. I never heard this before, but it seems to sound nicer. Are there any other suggestions?
    Thanks.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,789 ✭✭✭Caoimhín


    cailinoBAC wrote: »
    'taim i' ngra leat'
    Thanks.

    That means "i am in love with you"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 562 ✭✭✭jwcurtin


    cailinoBAC wrote: »
    Friends of mine from Poland want to put this on their wedding rings.
    'taim i' ngra leat' (should have fadas I know) just doesn't really seem right. My sister suggested 'tá grá orm duit'. I never heard this before, but it seems to sound nicer. Are there any other suggestions?
    Thanks.

    Tá Grá Agam Duit


  • Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,789 ✭✭✭Caoimhín


    jwcurtin wrote: »
    Tá Grá Agam Duit

    That's probably as close as you will get. The thing is, there is no literal translation of "i love you".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,113 ✭✭✭cailinoBAC


    yeah, I know, that's the thing. What about the one on Devore's link "Mo ghrá thú"?
    I mean, I don't think they'd be looking for an exact translation, just something that has the same meaning, but sounds nice too.
    Thanks for your help! Didn't expect replies so soon.


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  • Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    If I were them, I would have one engraved with "anam" and the other with "chroí".

    Anam is a strange word in Irish, it pretty much translates to "soul" but not in a particularly religious way. It means "my spirit, my life energy" and chroí means heart, both literal and physical.
    Both of these words have strong meanings in Irish and are often used in expressions of love, usually combined as in "mo anam, mo chroi!" (my heart and soul)... splitting them onto two rings would lend to the idea of two halves which belong together.

    Here are a few more examples specifically of rings but they will give you ideas...
    http://www.irishnation.com/irishweddingrings.htm

    DeV.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,789 ✭✭✭Caoimhín


    DeVore wrote: »

    Anam is a strange word in Irish, it pretty much translates to "soul" but not in a particularly religious way. It means "my spirit, my life energy" and chroí means heart, both literal and physical.

    DeV.

    Ooooooh! You are so romantic DeV.

    Id fancy you if i had the ghey.


  • Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    I'm a big softy, what can I say? (dont tell anyone or my online rep is ruined...ruined). :p


    DeV.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 583 ✭✭✭PandyAndy


    Tá ocras orm duit - I am hungry for you :cool:. I was never any good at Irish. If the couple have a sense a humour then tell them to use that :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,789 ✭✭✭Caoimhín


    DeVore wrote: »
    I'm a big softy, what can I say? (dont tell anyone or my online rep is ruined...ruined). :p


    DeV.

    No worries.

    Now get yourself into AH and post a few pics of you with your pitbulls and tattooed head.. :D


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  • Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


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    Grrrrr.....







    Ok, that went off topic at the speed of sound :)

    DeV.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,842 ✭✭✭Micilin Muc


    'Is grá liom thú' is how it's said. "Táim i ngrá leat" means "I'm in love with you" ...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 656 ✭✭✭Richard Cranium


    I might be a bit late with this reply, but I'm fairly certain the phrase they would be looking for is
    "Is tú mo ghrá."

    (Literally "You are my love".)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 657 ✭✭✭Andrew Flexing


    Caoimhín wrote: »
    Ooooooh! You are so romantic DeV.

    Id fancy you if i had the ghey.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,905 ✭✭✭Aard


    I'll echo "Is grá liom tú". Anything else sounds stilted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,057 ✭✭✭Krusader


    Tá grá agam duit
    Is grá liom thú

    These two, I would say are the most common

    is Gráim thú getting much use as a newer construction??


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 109 ✭✭yourmother


    What about "Is thu mo leannan" - You're my otherhalf

    Computer doesn't do fadas!


  • Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    ás fár ás Í knów théy dó!


    (hold down the mysterious Alt-GR button and press the vowel. If you tell me you use a mac I'm going to cry.)

    DeV.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,905 ✭✭✭Aard


    yourmother wrote: »
    What about "Is thu mo leannan" - You're my otherhalf
    That sounds scientific; if somebody told me that, I wouldn't quite know how to respond.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,842 ✭✭✭Micilin Muc


    Crosáidí wrote: »
    Tá grá agam duit
    Is grá liom thú

    These two, I would say are the most common

    is Gráim thú getting much use as a newer construction??

    I've heard it before but I much prefer "Tá grá agam duit" or "Is grá liom thú" as they are more common and natural.


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  • Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    "Graim" would seem to imply that Gra is a verb... no?? (I know its a know but I didnt think you could "Gra" someone :) )

    "Taim" is a contraction of "Tá mé" right?

    "Graim" would be a contraction of "Gra me" which seems wrong...

    DeV.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,057 ✭✭✭Krusader


    Gráigh would be the verb and 1 syllable verbs ending in "igh" are usually 1st declension verbs

    Gráim no Gránn mé, though I do prefer "Tá grá agam duit"
    In Gáidhlig they say "tha gràdh agam ort"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 25 Thinfin


    Tá tú i mo chroí - you are in my heart - is a nice way of saying it - the Donegal way.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 941 ✭✭✭An gal gréine


    Have'nt come across it put like that, thinfin.
    "Tá mo chroí istigh ionat", would do the job.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5 lasairchoille


    Is mór liom thú = I love you

    Is mór agam thú means roughly the same thing but is aimed at the situation where the is requited.

    ...you can finish it off with a cherry on top by saying
    "Is mór liom thú a thaisce"
    if you wish to call the person you're little treasure...

    bb7b
    :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 228 ✭✭Woow_Aqualung


    "Is aoibhinn liom tú" is what I say.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5 lasairchoille


    That wouldn't mean love if someone said it to me, but I'm not going to start being all preachy!

    So thas cool! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,246 ✭✭✭conor.hogan.2


    Dev - fadas on a mac is just the letter + alt.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 39 breda206


    "Grá mo chroí thú"

    is what I would say. It's probably too late now. It means "I love you" but can be literally translated as "you are the love of my heart", my Mamó used to say it to me and she really meant it. That's how it's said in Conamara if anyone's interested.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,326 ✭✭✭Scuid Mhór


    is aoibheann liom thu?

    goddamn fadas aren't working on this laptop. regardless that's how i remember it being said in the gaeltacht i went to yesteryear.


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