Maidin mhaith, a chairde,

Tá cúpla céist agam doibh. Conas a deirtear fiancé nó fiancée as Gaeilge? Agus cén Ghaeilges atá ar rookie (imreoir spoírt céad bhliana)?

Go raibh míle maith agaibh!

--Kathy

http://www.focloir.ie/en/dictionary/ei/fiance?q=Fiance agus http://www.focloir.ie/en/dictionary/ei/fiancee
glasearcach is used for 'rookie' in the military sense of a 'raw recruit'. Not sure if this is also used for sport, however.

Go raibh maith agat! I saw the military usage, and I assumed it meant someone who was "green," but I didn't want to assume that it could be used for sports.

I fixed the links in galaxyrocker's post, so that people who are interested can use them more easily. For more info about words related (closely or distantly) to glasearcach, see this thread:
http://www.irishlanguageforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=3644&hilit=gas%C3%BAr&start=0

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I'm not a native (or entirely fluent) speaker, so be sure to wait for confirmations/corrections, especially for tattoos.

Rookie = An duine nua/ glas, an fear nua/ glas; Núíosach (Dineen: Nóibheasach (< novice) ; rúcach

That said Rookie is fairly uncommon term in Ireland when describing sport. Its probably an Americanism in that regard I believe. But I may be wrong on that. I have never heard it used at sporting events.

For instance if a player was inexperienced at playing a game and he made a mistake, an Irish person

dheara, tá sé rud beag glas/ new fós 'he's still a bit green' or níl go leor taithí aige fós 'he doesn't have much experienced yet'.

Cian

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Thank you all. I was afraid that rookie might be tied too much to American professional sports, where a first-year player is new but not necessarily inferior, but someone with experience (in any field, not just sports) may well make a rookie mistake. I don't know if the term is used in other varieties of English.

I have also never heard/read the words fiancé and fiancée used in Irish--just some variant of an fear/bhean a bhfuil sí/sé geallta léi/leis Can anyone tell me whether those words would be used in normal conversation or writing, or would using them seem affected?

But, what you've just given is how you express the notion of fiancé in Irish. It has to be expressed using a phrase, unless you just use the the word fiancé. Geallta literally means 'promised', táid geallta lena chéile 'they are promised to each other'. There are also other ways of expressing the idea about getting married, e.g. Ní fada go mbeid ceangailte/ pósta 'twon't be long before they get married' etc...

'She's my fiancé' tá sí geallta liom/ dom, Is í m'fhiancé (í)

Cian

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Thanks. I do know several ways to say S/he's my fiancée using a clause; I didn't know if there was a common one-word way to say it. Would your example *Is í m'fhiancé (í)* be as common in Munster as one of the longer expressions?

I'd be willing to be, based on that link, that saying *Tá sí gealta dhom* would work just as well.

I think you're right and that I was looking for two words that just don't exist in Irish in the same form as in English. Thanks!