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Irish translation

  • 16-05-2013 7:44pm
    #1
    someguy666
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 ✭


    Can somebody translate these :

    I have to ( do something)
    I try to (do something)

    I had to (do something)
    I tried to (do something)

    Thanks


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  • #2
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,972 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    someguy666 wrote: »
    Can somebody translate these :

    I have to ( do something)
    I try to (do something)

    I had to (do something)
    I tried to (do something)

    Thanks

    Caithfidh mé/Tá orm/Ní mór dom (rud éigin a dhéanamh)
    Déanaim iarracht (rud éigin a dhéanamh)

    Put the same verbs into the past tense for the others.


  • #3
    MaryKirwan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 92 ✭✭MaryKirwan


    Insect Overlord wrote: »
    Caithfidh mé/Tá orm/Ní mór dom (rud éigin a dhéanamh)
    Déanaim iarracht (rud éigin a dhéanamh)

    Put the same verbs into the past tense for the others.

    I was wondering about how to say the same things, thanks:)
    I didn't know caithfidh was the present tense, I thought it was caitheann.


  • #4
    deirdremf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,159 ✭✭✭deirdremf


    Insect Overlord wrote: »
    Caithfidh mé/Tá orm/Ní mór dom (rud éigin a dhéanamh)
    Déanaim iarracht (rud éigin a dhéanamh)

    Put the same verbs into the past tense for the others.
    MaryKirwan wrote: »
    I was wondering about how to say the same things, thanks:)
    I didn't know caithfidh was the present tense, I thought it was caitheann.
    Caithfidh mé/tú etc. is a bit special. The verb has a future meaning, just as I must and I have to in English.
    They refer to things that have not happened yet; and that is why caithfidh mé is in the future tense when it has this meaning.

    And just like must in English, we do not use the past tense of caithfidh for obligation in the past tense.
    In English, we say had to as the past of must, and of have to too.

    In Irish, the past of 
    [B]caithfidh mé is b'éigean dom
caithfidh tú is b'éigean duit
caithfidh sé is b'éigean dó
caithfidh sí is b'éigean di
caithfidh sinn/muid is b'éigean dúinn
caithfidh sibh is b'éigean daoibh
caithfidh siad is b'éigean dóibh[/B]
    It seems complicated at first, but you will get used to it.
    Or use
    Tá orm/ort etc
    Bhí orm/ort
    Beidh orm/ort
    and so on.


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