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PostPosted: Mon 16 May 2016 1:42 pm 
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Greetings!

I'm looking for help with an Irish translation for a wrist tattoo. I'd like it to say "forgive and let go". Specifically - "forgive" in the sense of a command to oneself, or alternatively "I forgive"; and "let go" in the sense of letting go of the past, i.e. no longer being affected by something. So far in my own stumbling about I've come up with:

maithim agus scaoileadh

or

maith do agus scaoileadh

Are these way off for the meaning I'm going for? For kicks I did compare with Google translate, and it gives me logh agus lig dul, which seems too literal.

Many thanks, any input is greatly appreciated!

Serena


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PostPosted: Mon 16 May 2016 4:56 pm 
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I'm not entirely sure this can be done without an object for the verb.


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PostPosted: Tue 17 May 2016 8:50 pm 
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serenaV7ofV wrote:
Greetings!

I'm looking for help with an Irish translation for a wrist tattoo. I'd like it to say "forgive and let go". Specifically - "forgive" in the sense of a command to oneself, or alternatively "I forgive"; and "let go" in the sense of letting go of the past, i.e. no longer being affected by something. So far in my own stumbling about I've come up with:

maithim agus scaoileadh

or

maith do agus scaoileadh

Are these way off for the meaning I'm going for? For kicks I did compare with Google translate, and it gives me logh agus lig dul, which seems too literal.

Many thanks, any input is greatly appreciated!

Serena


Maithim agus scaoilim leis = I forgive and I let it/him go.

Wait for 3 to confirm.


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PostPosted: Tue 17 May 2016 9:36 pm 
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Maithim agus scaoilim leis = I forgive and I let it/him go


Looks good. :good:

One problem with what you had proposed was that the second verb was conjugated oddly for the context, but Bríd has fixed that.

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


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PostPosted: Wed 18 May 2016 4:46 am 
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CaoimhínSF wrote:
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Maithim agus scaoilim leis = I forgive and I let it/him go


Looks good. :good:

One problem with what you had proposed was that the second verb was conjugated oddly for the context, but Bríd has fixed that.


She also fixed my concern about the object, so I'd say this is good to go.

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PostPosted: Wed 18 May 2016 3:24 pm 
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This is perfect - Thank you all so much for the input and corrections!! :D


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