franc 91 wrote:
I just was trying to see if you could use them in anyway - déanta for example I've seen used for meaning - made - as 'Made in Ireland' or 'homemade'. There's also the way in Irish English you get sentences like - It was myself that did it, or rhetorical questions which begin with - Was it not me that..? which appear to me to be mirroring the use of 'nach' in Irish.
"déanta" is really an adjective. Using it for "made in Ireland" isn't grammatically brilliant, but you can just about get away with claiming it's a property of the item, hence adjective. Strictly, it should be a passive structure, but that's too long for the labels....