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What is "the free bird flies alone" in irish?

  • 20-03-2012 10:44pm
    #1
    FriendXY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭


    Hello!

    I've being trying to translate the sentence "the free bird flies alone" with different web pages, but the results don't convince me, becouse it is translated to "cuileoga an t-éan saor in aisce ina n-aonar" wich i think means literally "the bird flies free of charge alone". Can someone enlighten me?

    Thank you!


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  • #2
    Kayly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 107 ✭✭Kayly


    "Eitlionn an t-ean saor ina n-aonar" (fada on the second i in first word and the e in ean.


  • #3
    mr chips
    Registered Users Posts: 608 ✭✭✭mr chips


    I'm guessing this is for a tattoo? You may prefer this:

    "Eitlíonn an t-éan saor leis féin."
    You'd need the three fadas and the hyphen for it to be correct.

    I tend to think of "i m'aonar/ina aonar" etc as being slightly different from "liom féin/leis féin" - hard to explain why, but it's sort of the difference between happening to have no company around you vs choosing to be alone/independent. This difference may only exist in my own head!!

    If you prefer the version above, it would just be "ina aonar", rather than "ina n-aonar", which would be the plural version. You're correct that "saor in aisce" means free in the sense of being free of charge.


  • #4
    Micilin Muc
    Registered Users Posts: 2,842 ✭✭✭Micilin Muc


    FriendXY wrote: »
    Hello!

    I've being trying to translate the sentence "the free bird flies alone" with different web pages, but the results don't convince me, becouse it is translated to "cuileoga an t-éan saor in aisce ina n-aonar" wich i think means literally "the bird flies free of charge alone". Can someone enlighten me?

    Thank you!

    "Cuileoga" are flies, as in bluebottles. Nothing to do with the verb "to fly"!


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