I'm Donegal-flavoured (yum yum) if no expert.
MacBoo wrote:
I think that in Ulster Irish they quite often use "an...s'ag..." instead of the possessive,
although I don't know if it is only used in certain circumstances, nor what they would be.
"An t-anam s'agat" instead of "d'anam"??
This is indeed a common feature of Ulster Irish. I don't know about limitations of its use either, but
d'anam would be a cheaper, quicker tattoo.
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And I think they sometimes use a construction with
'dá...féin' for even though.
Based on that and with the caveat that I don't really know what I'm talking about
Mairfidh an t-anam s'agat linn, dá mbeinn tú féin imithe.Your soul will live on with us, even though you are gone.
DevQ, you should definitely wait for one of the Ulster experts to correct this.
= "even if", which is not much different from "even though" here, I suppose, but there's a personality disorder and a mis-sequence of tenses/mood in your version.
"even if you're gone" -
Má tá tú imithe féinI don't know that this is a particularly Ulster form. Anyway, there
is an Ulster version of
cé go("although") -
gídh go, though I'd think only the very oldest speakers would write it thus.
DevQ, "deanann d'anam ar" might be a typo for, or a misreading of
leanann d'anam ar aghaidh = "your soul carries on"
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