I need some dialogue translated.

"We could easily lose them on the road."

"That's no fun."

"I'll see you on the road, brother."


Please help! Thank you!!!!

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I'm very much a beginner learner. Don't hesitate to correct me, as long as you explain why. This is how I learn best!

Is this an actual brother, or is your speaker using "brother" as a term for a friend?

When you're speaking of "losing them on the road," are you talking about losing some object or about evading pursuit?

Little things such as this can make a big difference to the translation.

An actual brother.

And yes, evading pursuit. As in, two members of a group are planning to hop in their cars and get away from the rest of the group, which would easily be done because their cars are the fastest.

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I'm very much a beginner learner. Don't hesitate to correct me, as long as you explain why. This is how I learn best!

Hmmm...for the second, perhaps...

Feicfidh mé (or "Tcífidh mé," if your characters are from the North) ar an bóthar, a dheartháir.

For the first, I want to ask further if the "leaving them behind" is a planned activity or something they're discussing as a possibility (trying to decide whether to use future tense or conditional mode here. You used conditional in your English, but the lines are less clearly drawn in Irish)

Redwolf

there are 2 typos there, I think:

tchífidh mé
ar an bhóthar (btw in the north we'd rather say "ar an bhealach mhór")

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Do you mean literally "on the road", on a particular road. Or "on the way" sometime during the journey?

If you mean "on the way" maybe you could say -
Feicfidh mé ar an mbealach thú. (the Conamara meaning )


Just a suggestion -
Beidh/Bheadh muid in ann a ghoil (a dhul) amú oraibh go héasca ar an mbóthar/mbealach.
(Conamara dialect)



Again a suggestion, there will be other ways to say it.
Níl spraoi ar bith ansin.

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Perhaps:

D'fhéadfadh muid iad a fhágáil siar ar an mbóthar gan mórán dua.

Is beag an spóirt a bheadh ann.

Feicfidh mé ar an mbóthar thú, a dheartháir.


(Crossed with Bríd)

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

Oh yes, I should have specified Conamara. Sorry...been a while since I've needed to make a request.



Yes, leaving the rest of the group behind is what's intended here. This is what the speaker is suggesting. He wants/plans to leave them behind.






I mean a particular road. They're getting back on the same road they were driving on before, and they both know what road it is. Technically it's an interstate but I figure that's kind of an American thing and hard to translate? So "road" will suffice.



Bríd could you please help me with
Beidh vs. Bheadh
mbóthar vs. mbealach


Can someone please do a straight translation of each of these two so I can see the difference between them:

Níl spraoi ar bith ansin.
Is beag an spóirt a bheadh ann.

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I'm very much a beginner learner. Don't hesitate to correct me, as long as you explain why. This is how I learn best!

Níl spraoi ar bith ansin. literally "There is no fun there/in that."

Is beag an spóirt a bheadh ann. literally "Tis little the sport/fun there'd be in it."

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

Tiny change but I feel like leaving out the "an" is what I'd say in speech. Probably no merit to it but that's how I'd say it.