Irish Translation Forum

Día dhiabh a chairde.

De ghnáth usáidim "cé leis" mar "whose". Ach sa chaint dhíreach seo ó Keats, níl a fhois agam an bhfuil sin ceart: "Here lies one whose name is writ in water".

Má tá a fhois ag éinne, le bhúr dtoill, tabhar cuidiú dom.

GRMA,
Ade.

Yeah, cé leis is only for the question form, i.e., Cé leis an leabhar sin? "Whose book is that?".

In the case of the Keats sentence, you are looking at a relative clause. I could be wrong, but I think "whose" is always indirect in its meaning, so you would use a bhfuil. Perhaps:

Tá duine ina luí anseo a bhfuil a ainm scríofa le huisce. "Here lies one whose name is writ in water".

Breandán wrote:a bhfuil

me too

Ah, go raibh míle maith agaibh.

If I were to arrange your translation a bit, Breandán, to try and make the structure closer to the English quote, do you think this could work:

Ina luí anseo atá duine a bhfuil a ainm scríofa le huisce.

Or, is it too English-ey in nature ... or is it wrong altogether?

Sounds pretty good to me. (But you might like to wait for sounder confirmation. )