Translate please?

Shane

Would be very grateful if someone would transfer this into Irish for me. Have a rough idea but it has to be perfect, and my Gaeilge ain't what it used to be!

"Thank you very much for your assistance"

qwidgybo

go raibh míle maith agat don chuidiú......that would be for THE assistance,and it's a pretty basic word for assistance,but at least it's gramatically correct(as far as i know)

Bard

or...

go raibh míle maith agat don cabhair

or...

tá an-buíochais liom duit leis an cabhair

or...

táim an buíochasach duit leis an cabhair [a thabhairt tú dom]

zynaps

I'd say buíochasach would be more right... or "tá buíochas agam duit"?

Go raibh maith agat asat an cabhair.

Bard

so noted and corrected, Zynaps ... thanks

"táim an buíochas duit" :rolleyes: - how could I make such a grammatical error! :rolleyes:

zynaps

I was wrong too, I should have said "go raibh maith agat as ocht an cabhair", and not asat.... I've been getting that one wrong for ages

It's easy enough to make grammatical errors in irish if you speak it more than you read or write it, I guess... depending on how strong your grammar was and how confident you were with it before ceasing to study it actively....
I only really kept learning grammar until 2nd or 3rd year (in secondary school..!), maybe, and after that was cocky because I can speak it at a conversational level.

It's a few years later that I'm realising the foundation of my grammar is pretty jaysus shaky

zynaps

Gael

Go raibh míle maith agat as ucht do chuid cabhrach/cúnaimh.

zynaps

Ucht? Ach, not again! :P

Gael

'Tis but a minor mistake Zynaps, but "ocht" refers only to the number "eight".

zynaps

Aye, sometimes you'll just realise you've been spelling something wrong or using the wrong construction for years, possibly

Like a few years ago, I realised "béidir" wasn't a word, and I should have been writing "b'fhéidir". Noone had corrected me on it, and I'd been doing it for years.

It's just good to realise these things...

Gael

Well, when in doubt consult the old foclóir. Déarfainn go bhfuil ar a laghad foclóir amháin ag gach aon duine in Éirinn a rinne gaeilge ar scoil.

zynaps

Tá eagla agam roimh an de bháildrithe (é sin nó an ceann dineen) atá timpeall an teach áit éigin.... an uair dhearnach a d'oscail mé é, thuig mé b'fhéidir gach ceathrú focail.

Chuirfinn sámpla ach táim romh-leisciúil dul ar chúardú an diabhal leabhar anois. Tá sé suimiúl é a léamh le haghaidh an saghas stuif atá ann - focla an ait

zynaps

Gael

an uair dhearnach a d'oscail mé é, thuig mé b'fhéidir gach ceathrú focail.

Nach bhfuil sé mar an gcéanna leis an bhfoclóir Béarla. Ní thuigimse féin móran de na focail san fhoclóir Béarla.

Isn't it the same for the English dictionary? I don't understand half the words in the English dictionary either.

zynaps

Tuigim a bhfad níos mó dos na focla san fhoclóir béarla, agus mona bhfuil aithint agam air, go minic bím ábalta feiscint ó cá h-áit a thagann an focal - phréamacha etc!
Tá sé sin a bhfad níos deacra san ghaeilge dom.

Mar shampla, mona raibh an focal "morose" faoi ndeara agam as béarla, d'fhéadfainn feiscint gurbh fhéidir go bhfuil ceangailt aige le "mort" agus "mourir" san fraincís agus an focal eile béarla "morbid" , so beidh aithint ginearálta an focal agam.

San ghaeilge, feicfinn rud cosúil le *flicks open dinneen* ...

"dúchann" - melody, tune, a strain of music.
"dúdach" - "having a prominent mouth"
"dubhragán" - "a cloud"
"dubh-rúnta" - "mysterious"

An t-aon cheann anseo a bheadh seans agam a n-aithniú ná an cheann déarnach.

B'fhéidir go bhfuil sé níos éasca dom (dúinn?) focla nua a thuiscint san bhéarla má go bhfuil inchur ó chuid mhaith theangacha eile - fraincís, laidinnis, ghearmáinis - nó b'fhéidir just go labhraíonn muid an teanga ó lá go lá.
Tá an cuma go bhfuil gaeilge go bhunúsach gan an méid céanna inchur ó theangacha eile - ar a laghad inchur ó theangacha beo nach bhfuil... dubh-rúnta

Suimiúl, no?

zynaps

Hmm, as an afterthought, on the page across from those words in dineen's dictionary was "dúbhsamánach" - morose.

Dubh-rúnta...