Naíscoil is the standard term we use for Nursery. Never actually heard of Naíonra before. Could be a dialect thing i guess but Naíscoil would be used in Ulster.

In the Gaeltachts in Donegal or in Belfast?

If it is the case that its dialectal, a term like Naíscoil would be a class natural archaism, since the compounding of nouns began to die out as a practice in the Early-Middle Modern Irish period.

Most of the new compound terms you find nowadays like scoilbhliain (more natural to say: bliain scoile) etc... are focal.ie terms.

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I am by no means an expert on all schools in Ulster but i know the common term in the 6 counties at least would be Naíscoil, not specific to Belfast. Could be a "northern" Irish thing

It's not a term from native Irish, so it would be a focail.ie or learner thing

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Doesn't seem to be used in the Gaeltachts in Donegal: http://www.comharnaionrai.ie/na-naionra ... gion=Uladh

Oh ya, by the way Comhghairdeachas on your daughter starting Irish school and its very uplifting to see that you are promoting Irish at home !

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It's something i missed out on when i was young so I thought i would give her the opportunity, also it means i get to learn alongside her so she will probably be teaching me a thing or two.

In terms of Naíscoil, i think it's perhaps more of an "urban irish" term, as i have seen it used for schools in Dublin and in terms of the 6 counties, everything stems from Belfast.

Yeah, you could say it's an urban thing

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Sorry got a little off topic, would you all agree that this is the way forward "Táím ana bhródúil as m'iníon Aoife, tá sí tar-éis tosú i Naíscoil Ghleann Darach inniu." over something like this "Tá bród agam as m'iníon a Aoife. Inniu, Is sí tús Naíscoil Ghleann Darach" ?

I think I brought it off topic !

What I gave you is an official standard version: 'I am very proud of my daughter Aoife, she is after starting in Naíscoil Ghleann Darach today.'

There are lots of other ways of saying it.

Your's is a bit of f semantically.

I'll go through some of the errors if that helps? I didn't do it earlier because I didn't want to seem to be nasty.

a Aoife doesn't make sense here because a Aoife is the vocative case, the vocative is only used when addressing the person directly.

Is sí is the copula and doesn't make sense here. The substantive verb is needed.

tús is the noun 'start', tosú is the verbal noun 'starting'.

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No please a breakdown of errors is always helpful. Please understand also that it is not that i do not want to use your translation, it's just i am not sure it is how i would have translated it, so I would rather have my own version as such and learn from any mistakes i make in that. hopefully that makes some sort of sense, it does in my head anyway.

So moving on from the errors you have pointed out, i have corrected my sentence to be :

"Tá bród agam as m'iníon Aoife. Inniu, Tá sí tosú i Naíscoil Ghleann Darach."

Any closer to making sense?