Hi All,

Thank you for reading my post. I've heard very good things about this forum so I know I can rely you to help me.

This is in reference to an experience I had after my mom passed away a few years ago. I'm getting a tattoo and wanted to incorporate Irish into it because she embraced her Irish heritage so strongly. I was hoping you could help me translate the following:

"Two Souls Dream"
"Two Souls Witness"
"Two Souls Heal"

I'm grateful for any help. Thank you so much.

For some of those expressions, the Irish verbal structure would sound more natural with a direct object of the action being expressed, which is missing from your English versions.
Keeping that in mind, these should still be understandable (but do wait to see if others have better suggestions):

Déanann dhá anam brionglóidí [typo corrected]
Two Souls Dream

Tugann dhá anam fiainise
Two Souls Witness

Leigheasann dhá anam
Two Souls Heal [someone/something else]

Cneasaíonn dhá anam
Two Souls Heal [themselves]

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

Thanks very much, CaoimhínSF, for your reply. I'll wait and see what others have to add on to this but I'm grateful.

Corrections:
Déanann ...
... fianaise ...


I'd put dhá anam first:

Dhá anam a dhéanas brionglóidí (or: a dhéanann(s))
Two Souls Dream

Dhá anam a thugas fianaise (or: a thugann(s))
Two Souls Witness

Dhá anam a leigheasas (or: a leigheasann(s))
Two Souls Heal [someone/something else]

Dhá anam a chneasaíos (or: a chneasaíonn(s))
Two Souls Heal [themselves]

I like that approach: "Two souls who dream" etc.

Typo corrected above.

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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 again for your help with this. I won't be getting the tattoo for another month so I'll keep an eye on the thread but I'm confident that both Labhrás and CaoimhínSF are leading me the right way.

One question, with the second phrase

Dhá anam a thugas fianaise

Would finnè work instead of fianaise or would that not translate well? I'm just using translation software which I know I can be wildly inaccurate but it translates fianaise as evidence. My intention is for it to convey witnessing or seeing.

Finné is a noun denoting a person only.
Fianaise is a noun denoting a thing.

Finné can't be used with the verb thugas. If you "give witness", you don't give a person, but you give evidence.

So, no, finné doesn't work.

Thank you for that! I understand now.