I bought my daughter a watch for her graduation in May and I want to get it engraved with something in Gaelic. I want to keep it short because there's not a lot of space on the watch so I have written it two ways. Please translate both so I can have a back up if the first version is too long. This is what I am thinking:


"You are beautiful
Be confident
and love"

"Beautiful
brilliant
always love"


Be confident - as in believe in yourself and don't doubt yourself, have faith in yourself
Love - as in love yourself and show love to others
Brilliant - intelligent, amazing, awesome, incredible, you're a great person, you have the ability to do anything

I appreciate any help

The first one is going to be hard to make succinct:

Tá tú go hálainn (You are beautiful)
Go raibh muinín agus grá agat (May you have confidence and love)

For the second, perhaps:

Go hálainn (Beautiful)
Go hiontach (Wonderful/amazing)
Grá go deo (Love forever. This is love as a noun...expressing it as a verb gets a bit wordy)

Wait for more input.

Redwolf

Edited to fix error and avoid confusion.

I think these work nicely. The phrasal verbs make the other way too complicated.


@Redwolf - I think "May you have ~" is Go raibh ~ agat rather than go mbeidh ~ agat "that you will have ~".

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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).

Thanks...I don't know where my brain was last night! I'll fix it in the original to avoid confusion.

Redwolf

Thanks for the quick responses. Looks like I just need one more okay before I can start the process. I have one last question. If I wanted to substitute "wonderful/amazing" for "intelligent" would that be a lot of words?

Perhaps this would work:

Éirimiúil "Talented, gifted, intelligent"

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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).

Thanx that's what I've been seeing a lot. Can you confirm the rest of the translation that 2 others have agreed on in the prior posts?

Just to be clear, do I have three people agreeing on:


Go hálainn (Beautiful)
Éirimiúil (intelligent)
Grá go deo (love forever)

As I offered the first and third I can't really confirm them too (you've got two in agreement, though, so you only need a third for those). I can second "Éirimiúil" (intelligent)

Redwolf

thanx!