Random sentances of Irish you remember from school and their English transation

FreekALeek · 19-12-2015 06:20PM #1

"Is maith liom cáca milis"

If I remember right it means "I like/love sweets"

mattP · 19-12-2015 06:22PM

Im fairly sure it means "I love cake", "milseain"* (or something like that) means sweets

Dirty Dingus McGee · 19-12-2015 06:22PM

"An bhfuil cead agam ag dul go dtí on leithiris"

Do I have permission to go too the toilet.

Samaris · 19-12-2015 06:30PM

"dubh le daoine" - a phrase we learned for writing essays about beaches - "black with people" (a large crowd)
"Lig se/si screic as" - My spelling's wild on that, but "S/he let a shriek out of him/her" - another essay favourite.
"An bhfuil cad agam dul amach go dti an leitris, a mhuinteoir?" - Can I go out to the toilet, teacher
"striapach" - the only Irish word anyone in the class learned from that bloody An Triail book.

And of course the Children of the Corn-like creep factor of thirty girls standing up at once and intoning with exactly the same inflections "Dia is Muire dhuit is Paidraig, failte romhat isteach [teacher name/head nun name/priest name]

Banjo String · 19-12-2015 06:36PM

Tiocfaidh ár lá.

(Means Brits out)

LordSutch · 19-12-2015 06:40PM

Ta ucras uram / The hunger is on me.
Oscail on doras / open the door
Oscail on Finuogue / open the window.

looksee · 19-12-2015 06:42PM

I cant write it and I am not willing to write it phonetically

, but the Irish for 'close the door'

mickstupp · 19-12-2015 06:42PM

Chuaigh me ag snamh leis na duilloga ar an ghrian.

XR3i · 19-12-2015 06:43PM

D'ith an madra mo obair bhaile

maudgonner · 19-12-2015 06:44PM

looksee wrote: »

I cant write it and I am not willing to write it phonetically , but the Irish for 'close the door'

Dún an doras

The King of Moo · 19-12-2015 06:45PM

Is cuimhin liom a lán lán rudaí PB!

carefulnowted · 19-12-2015 06:47PM

Slán leat agus go n-éirí an t-ádh leat.
Goodbye and best of luck.

CFlat · 19-12-2015 06:50PM

It was difficult to learn Irish in probably the 2 must important years of school, 5th and 6th year. That's because the beautiful man that was my Irish teacher thought I'd learn it better by him beating the sh1t out of me for those 2 years. Funnily enough, he was wrong.

If the man is dead, I hope he's burning in hell.

That felt good. Thanks.

FreekALeek · 19-12-2015 07:32PM

XR3i wrote: »

D'ith an madra mo obair bhaile

Thew dog ate my homework?

languagenerd · 19-12-2015 07:37PM

"Tá an friotal lom gonta sa dán/scéal seo" ("The language is clear and concise in this poem/story"). I used that to describe pretty much everything on the Junior Cert paper...

My Irish got a lot better after that but for the Junior Cert I just learned off a whole load of phrases from a revision book and used em in every answer

Jarrod · 19-12-2015 07:55PM

Ce leis e sin?

Or something like that. Not sure of the exact translation but presumably what eejit lost their copy/jumper/pencil case.

gnarbarian · 19-12-2015 08:05PM

Ciúnas bothar cailín bainne

foxy farmer · 19-12-2015 08:10PM

Sé uair don céad lá eile. - - Do it 6 times for the next day.
Usually a penalty shouted at you for not having homework done.
Lá breá samhraidh a bhí ann.-- Twas a grand summers day.
Ná bac le mhac bocht an bacach. -- Don't bother with the cripples poor son.( or words to that effect )

weldoninhio · 19-12-2015 08:12PM

Thum se isteach san uisce - He dived into the water.

My 6th class teacher put so much emphasis into Thum, as if to make it dramatic.

feargale · 19-12-2015 08:22PM

Samaris wrote: »

"An bhfuil cad agam dul amach go dti an leitris, a mhuinteoir?" - Can I go out to the toilet, teacher

Cad = 1. Scrotum or by extension 2. a football.

Your sentence translates as "teacher, ( 1. ) have I the balls to go out to the toilet ( or 2. ) have I a football to go out to the toilet?"

Why didn't you pick a nicer place to play football?

maudgonner · 19-12-2015 08:23PM

Tóg amach an teilgeoir.

(Take out the slide projector). Remember when that would be wheeled out and you'd watch an endless series of slides about going to the dentist etc? I came across them lately here.

Be warned, that site may induce extreme flashbacks.

19-12-2015 08:26PM

Où est le Centre de Georges Pompidou?

Whitewinged · 19-12-2015 08:47PM

Ar nos na gaoithe - like the wind

RayM · 19-12-2015 08:50PM

"Léigh anois go cúramach, ar do scrúdpháipéar…"

Something about reading the exam paper carefully.

xLisaBx · 19-12-2015 09:21PM

RayM wrote: »

"Léigh anois go cúramach, ar do scrúdpháipéar…"

Something about reading the exam paper carefully.

Léigh anois go cúramach ar do scrúpháipéar, na treollacha agus na ceisteanna a ghobhainn le chuid A/B/C
This was the instruction on both the JC and LC Irish listening components to the exam. Usually followed by the dreaded northern irish accent, where nobody could understand a thing that was said.
The only reason I remember this is because I frequently failed the listening component and performed well in all other components.

19-12-2015 10:00PM

Cead mile failte romhat, a Iosa a Iosa.

A hundred thousand welcomes, oh Jesus oh Jesus.

Not a phrase but a song I must have sung hundreds of times!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 19-12-2015 10:02PM

Níl a fhios agam. I don't know.

My most repeated phrase in Irish.

deex · 19-12-2015 10:19PM

Seanfocals! All I remember is bloody seanfocals! We learned one every week in primary school and very little other Irish - no idea what the logic was in that.

Off the top of my head:

- aithnionn ciarog ciarog eile
- tus maith leath na hobire
- tir gan teanga, tir gan anam
- is fearr gaeilge briste na bearla cliste
- is glas iad na cnoic i bhfad uainn

etc etc.

Ted_YNWA · 19-12-2015 10:21PM

Níl aon scaimall sa spéir

There are no clouds in the sky

martyos121 · 19-12-2015 10:23PM

Is cuma liom.

I don't care. I haven't changed a bit.

Medusa22 · 19-12-2015 10:31PM

The phrase that I'd use at the end of almost every one of my Irish stories, ''Ta se an briongloid nach dheanfaidh me dearmad uirthi go deo'', which means ''that was a dream that I'd never forget'', all of my stories were shyte and I never knew how to finish them so I'd end it by waking up from a terrible dream. Usually these stories involved ''gadai'' - robbers or a ''timpiste'', accident.

Random sentances of Irish you remember from school and their English transation

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