Storybook Translation for Tattoo

Scooby · **Joined:** Tue 06 Sep 2011 7:18 pm **Posts:** 576

Leenie4409 wrote:

So the literal translation of that is Mhair siad (they lived) go sona (happily) suairc an chuid eile dá saol (for the rest of their lives)

Mhair siad (they lived)
go sona (happily) suairc (happily/pleasantly)
an chuid eile dá saol (for the rest of their lives)

Leenie4409 · **Joined:** Tue 19 Jun 2012 2:14 pm **Posts:** 7

So Scooby could I take out suairc then and still have it mean the same thing?? It seems that as it is the literal translation says happily twice?

Breandán · **Posted:** Wed 20 Jun 2012 11:55 pm

Irish likes alliterative pairs. It would sound less Irish without the doubling up of the adjectives to achieve this.

Gumbi wrote:

FWIW, here's my recording of it. <To be inserted>

File inserted above.

Gumbi's dialect is Munster.

Bríd Mhór · **Joined:** Sun 28 Aug 2011 8:29 pm **Posts:** 2985

And mine ...

http://irishlearner.awyr.com/membrfaylz ... 20sona.mp3

(Breandán can put it on the server later. Thanks.)

Gumbi · **Joined:** Tue 06 Sep 2011 8:09 pm **Posts:** 943

GRMA!

franc 91 · **Posted:** Thu 21 Jun 2012 6:56 pm

At the end of a story, I believe it's usually - sin é - but that wouldn't be much use here.

Lori · **Joined:** Sun 18 Mar 2012 7:03 am **Posts:** 15

Redwolf wrote:

I'm not sure that Irish has a traditional closing line for such tales, though it does have an equivalent to "once upon a time."

I don't mean to derail the thread, but what is the equivalent to "once upon a time" as Gaeilge?

Bríd Mhór · **Joined:** Sun 28 Aug 2011 8:29 pm **Posts:** 2985

Lori wrote:

Redwolf wrote:

I'm not sure that Irish has a traditional closing line for such tales, though it does have an equivalent to "once upon a time."

I don't mean to derail the thread, but what is the equivalent to "once upon a time" as Gaeilge?

Fadó, fadó...
Long long ago...

franc 91 · **Posted:** Thu 21 Jun 2012 7:51 pm

or as Séamus Ennis used to say it - long ago and long ago it was - (before my time and before my father's time and before your time........)

Leenie4409 · **Joined:** Tue 19 Jun 2012 2:14 pm **Posts:** 7

Thanks for the recordings!!! I shall be going around the house practicing :LOL: