le Páidín vs le Pháidín

stephanus · 2010-09-18 08:12:08

Which of these is correct? I guess that both are and that one is dialect and one standard. I heard/saw that in a music video from TG4 in which the singer clearly sings "le Páidín" without the seimhiú but in the subtitles it is "le Pháidín". (I'm still haunted by "Bean Pháidín")

18-09-2010 09:12AM

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stephanus

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Which of these is correct? I guess that both are and that one is dialect and one standard. I heard/saw that in a music video from TG4 in which the singer clearly sings "le Páidín" without the seimhiú but in the subtitles it is "le Pháidín".
(I'm still haunted by "Bean Pháidín")

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#2 18-09-2010 04:58PM

dory

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AFAIK there shouldn't be a séimhiú after Le usually (although there is le chéile). But sometimes a séimhiú is put in to help things flow in speak. The subtitler may just have screwed up.

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#3 22-09-2010 10:11PM

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It should be "Le Páidín". Le doesn't put a séimhiú on nouns. Le chéile is an exception of sorts. There's a séimhiú in "Bean Pháidín" because Páidín's in the tuisil ginideach.

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#4 23-09-2010 11:27AM

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Dory and Gaeilgeboy are spot on. Le only affects nouns that begin with a vowel, outside of a few rare exceptions as mentioned.

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