I cant work out how to say "YOu have to like my..." i.e. music list. B'féidir "caithfidh tú mo liosta ceol a mhaith leat"?

Is this "like" as in "liking" something on Facebook? Or are you telling people that they must enjoy everything on your music list?

If the former, perhaps something like:

Caithfidh tú "is maith liom" a chur/a thabairt/a chliceáil ar mo liosta ceoil.

Definitely not at all certain, though, so wait for more input.

Redwolf

I have no idea how to say "like" something on facebook. But if you're going for the other sense, as in you know the person is going to enjoy it, I would say one of these:

Caithfidh tú sult a bhaint as mo liosta ceoil
Is cinnte go dtaitneoidh mo liosta ceoil leat

But I'm sure others will have better suggestions.

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Táim ag foghlaim fós. Fáilte roimh gach aon cheartúchán.

Perhaps:

Ní foláir nó gur maith leat ... "You'd have to like ..."


Ní foláir is one way to say "must". It has the sense of "surely", as opposed to caithfidh which is more in the sense of "you'd better". Some examples from FGB:

Ní foláir nó go bhfuil aithne agat air. "You must know him."
Ní foláir nó go dteipfeadh orainn "We would surely fail."
Ní foláir nó ba bhreá an fear é "He must have been a fine man."


Depends on what nuance our Somhairle Óg was actually after, of course.

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

The first is a nice baseline suggestion, I think, off which to work.

I'm trying to think off a suitable, snappy way to say it in Irish, much as the English version is.

The saor-bhriathar is considered good/natural in its usage - maybe Caithfear sult/taitneamh a bhaint as an liosta (ceoil) seo. But that doesn't precisely represent "like". I don't think twisting the idiom "is maith le" in a way such as this "Caithfear maitheas a bheith leat i dtaobh an cheoil seo" would be correct at all.

I dunno, I'm just spit-balling here

Mmmm food for thought, caithfidh tú sult a bhaint as mo liosta ceoil is easiest for me to say, Im sure Ill get the point across

gur mhaith nach ea?

I don't think so. I think the "would" in the English comes from the ní foláir.

gur maith leat "that you like"
gur mhaith leat "that you would like/want"

Nach ea?

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

If it's Facebook I'd go with what Redwolf said.

If not -
"Bainigí sult as mo liosta ceoil"

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It is recommended that you always wait for three to agree on a translation.
I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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BTW, speaking of Facebook, has anyone else who uses the Irish interface noticed that it's changed from "is maith liom" to "like"? The other Irish stuff doesn't seem to have changed. Weird.

Redwolf