franc 91 wrote:
I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.
In Irish would it be ? - Is breá liom bheith ag caint faoi rud ar bith. Tá rud amháin atá a fhios agam faoi aon ní.
That is perhaps a difficult one because there is no "nothing" in Irish, just a lot of "anythings", e.g. "rud ar bith", lit. "thing on earth" or "dada" lit. a iota, a little amount.
There is no word that means literally "
no thing". To obtain the meaning of "nothing" the sentence must be negative. But "I love to talk ..." isn't negative.
I don't know how to translate this properly.
But some remarks:
I love to talk =
Is breá liom caint (
bheith ag is superfluous. It means "I love to be talking ...")
*rud atá a fhios agam ->
rud a bhfuil a fhios agam = a thing that I know (the little "a" is a possessive adjective "its knowlegde". It requires an indirect relative clause),
but:
bheith a fhios ag = to know something, always without "about"
to know something
about it =
bheith eolas agat air,
(And, of course, "air" requires an indirect relative clause, too.)
It's the ... =
Sin é an .... You cannot use
tá here
So:
Sin é an t-aon rud (amháin) a bhfuil gach uile eolas agam air = That's the only thing I know everything about it.