Hi everyone

I’m from switzerland and i’ve been to ireland and it was just great - now i‘d like to have a tattoo in irish.

So i wanna ask for your help guys.

In German it is:
Nur ich gehe den Weg meines Lebens.

In English:
- Only I walk the path of my life.
- Only I go the way of my life.
- Only I walk the way of my life.

I don‘t know, which one is the best to translate..

So thanks a lot for your help!

Is mise amháin a shiúlann cosán mo shaol. > (In English, "It's me alone that walks the path of my life." Maybe in German, "Es ist mir allein, die den Weg meines Lebens geht.")

Please wait for more ideas. There may be something more concise, more better said.

Cheers,

Tim

Hi Tim,

thanks a lot - what do you think about this one?

Níl ach mise ag siúl slí mo bheatha-sa.
"Only I walk the way of my life."

Have a nice day & thx!

... mo shaoil (genitive)

and if that's corrected (genitive), is it 100% correct?

Grammatically, yes.

But I'm not sure if it's idiomatic.

Slí bheatha "way of life" is how you are getting the means of life, i.e. keeping yourself alive: your occupation, dein Beruf, not your "Lebensweg" in a broader sense.
Beatha (to answer your other post) is "life" in a more biological sense. Saol (from Latin saeculum) is your life span on earth.
So: bealach (Weg), slí (Weg), cosán (Pfad) mo shaoil (of my life)
But the problem still is: I've never heard or seen this phrase used in Irish.

Yes, I find it difficult to conceive although it must be possible.

How about the following (with a possible change of verb, for something better)?

Ní threoraíonn éinne mé ar an mbóthar ach mé féin.