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dory · 22-07-2010 09:55PM #1

"My journey over the last 7 years has been an amazing one".

Seems simple enough but I can't quite get it right.
Aon smaointí?

Krusader · 27-07-2010 09:00AM

bhí mo thuras ar feadh seacht mbliana ceann ionaidh

hmm, the has been has me stumped do we need the aut. form here

Enkidu · 27-07-2010 10:04AM

The "has been" tense is called the perfect tense. Unfortunately Irish doesn't have a perfect tense.
What would be a perfect tense sentence in English is expressed in Irish in different ways depending on the sentence.

For example:
Tá Máire san óstán seachtain anois.
Literally: Mary is in the hotel a week now.
Meaning: Mary has been in the hotel a week now.

Usually it's best to avoid trying to translate "has been" directly and for sentences like the above, just use the past tense. So Crosáidí's translation works.

Micilin Muc · 27-07-2010 10:09AM

dory wrote: »

"My journey over the last 7 years has been an amazing one".

Seems simple enough but I can't quite get it right.
Aon smaointí?

Ba thuras iontach é mo thuras-sa le seacht mbliana anuas.

Enkidu · 27-07-2010 11:35AM

Micilin Muc wrote: »

Ba thuras iontach é mo thuras-sa le seacht mbliana anuas.

Ah!, the copula. I should have said that.

onemorechance · 27-07-2010 11:43AM

Tá tú go maith Micilín!

dory · 03-08-2010 03:47PM

Go h-iontach! Go raibh míle!

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