Heh, heh – I love reading your posts!

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We all do.
The forum wouldn't be the same without Saoirse.

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That's me blushing! Either that or I have particularly high blood pressure!

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It is indeed. It's a combination of the preposition de and the possessive particle a.
de + a = dá.

However any form of de is lenited after vowels, so you get dhá.


Ní, the negative form of the copula, prefixes h to vowels.
Ní hag cuardach atá sí = She isn't searching.


Ah! I didn't know that.

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The dialect I use is Cork Irish.
Ar sgáth a chéile a mhairid na daoine, lag agus láidir, uasal is íseal

Thanks, I didn't know about any of that. This stuff should be in the notes, I think.

And speaking of notes: I hope you don't mind me being a little nit-picky, but I spotted a few typos in the notes:

2. (b.) … It's absence indicates …

7. … These will be explained

Fionn … regarding people who are fair-haired …

On Nead an Fholair and Nest of the Eagle, the first quotation marks are backwards (I'm not sure if that can be fixed)

The definition of Ba mhar a chéile ansan iad agus mná sidhe does not say what the word ansan means in the sentence; I think it means "there", right?

Fuirbhtheacht … old age, decrepitude. (the spelling of "decrepitude" is wrong in the notes)

… They didn't get any older nor more decrepit.

Sin a bhfuil agam.

I just started Cuid a haon today! Looks like it's going to be much easier than Séadna. Although I will be reading it in normal font. I am having difficulty translating the font and the words simultaneously. Seem I can't divide my focus like that.

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Táim ag foghlaim Gaelainn na Mumhan

Tá fáilte roim nach aon cheartú!
I am a learner. Any translations offered are practice and should not be used unless confirmed.

Another typo: In this line:

2. (b.) … It's absence indicates …

You should have "its," not "it's." "It's" is a contraction of "it is." "Its" is the possessive.

Redwolf

It does mean "there" too. In Conamara we say "ansin".

But in that context I believe it means "then".

Then they were the same as the mná sidhe.



Opps I only saw the rest of the notes now, I thought there was only one page.

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It is recommended that you always wait for three to agree on a translation.
I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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re: notes

"le ithe = to be eaten"

In Conamara we say "le n-ithe"

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It is recommended that you always wait for three to agree on a translation.
I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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