Hi All,

I was wondering if I could get the following translated into either Ulster Irish, Standard Irish, or Old Spelling please:
" For those I love, I will sacrifice ".

Thank you so much,

James

There is a verb in Irish with the meaning "to sacrifice" (íobair), but it's usually used in a literal, religious sense, with respect to the sacrifice of the mass, or a pagan physically offering something up as a sacrifice, so the following might be a good way to express what you want. Wait for other comments, though, because someone may have a better way to say it, or a better feel for whether using íobair in this context is ok.

Do na daoine atá grá agam dóibh
For the people whom I love

caithfidh mé mise féin leo
I will offer myself for them

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

Thank you! Aye I will wait for a few confirmations before getting it done, I don't want to be that wally with an incorrect tattoo!

In my opinion "sacrifice" in English has the same religious meaning as "íobairt" in Irish. Only here it's used figuratively or with a broader meaning. So I think it's ok to use it.

So I'd say:

Dhéanfainn íobairt dom féin ar son iad súid a bhfuil grá agam dhóibh.

Conditional, as you don't know if it will happen yet.

It's probably needs spelling correction.

Thank you for this! I will wait out for confirmation that this is correct and then good to go I think!

Súid should be siúd .

Do you really say "ar son iad" instead of (Standard Irish) "ar a son"?
(Or is it to have an antecedent for the relative clause a bhfuil grá agam dhóibh?)

I'd suggest: ... ar son na ndaoine siúd a bhfuil grá agam dóibh

Well, Bríd _is_ a native speaker, a Labhrais.

The Corpas at gaois.ie has examples of "ar son iad siúd" as well.

To me, iad súid a bhfuil grá agam dhóibh functions as a unit, so it is in the genitive relation by position.

Yours works too.

So, both of these work for me:

Dhéanfainn íobairt dom féin ar son iad siúd a bhfuil grá agam dóibh.

Dhéanfainn íobairt dom féin ar son na ndaoine siúd a bhfuil grá agam dóibh.

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My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
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Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

I know. The more I'm interested whether native speakers really say so.
I know people say "ar nós iad" but yet I haven't encountered "ar son" used so.



corpas.focloir.ie hasn't.
(It probably contains less colloquial material)



Yes, an understandable justfication.