Irish Translation Forum

This line;

"Sé léan tú
Do fhear cheile."

I'm a bit confused by. It's the second verse in Enya's "Smaointe"; the first verse is directed at her grandfather, and the second at her grandmother, but in both verses they speak of the other. The song is a lament for Enya's grandparents, so what might this line mean?

I've heard "Following you is your husband," but I'm not sure about that (with all due respect to the one who gave me that translation Anyone?

I think the "following you is your husband" translation is correct.

Redwolf

Is there not somewhere you can go for Enya lyrics?

you keep posting about enya


www.enya.com or something?

Maybe he likes to use the songs to practice translating. I do that a lot.

Redwolf

Conor wrote:Is there not somewhere you can go for Enya lyrics?

you keep posting about enya


www.enya.com or something?

No, many of those translations are incorrect or imprecise. That's why I came here in the first place.

and I just like to know what she's saying in those Irish or other language songs.

Redwolf wrote:Maybe he likes to use the songs to practice translating. I do that a lot.

Redwolf

'Course, it'll be my luck I'll finally get to the point where I can actually speak Irish, and I'll go to Ireland and they'll say "your Irish is pretty good...but why do you always sound like you're trying to recite poetry?"

Redwolf

I posted a link under Freq Translations of precise Enya lyric translations:

http://www.pathname.com/enya/

sethkoopa wrote:
and I just like to know what she's saying in those Irish or other language songs.

You're quite right, I'm the same. Yet the song is never the same when you know the words.

Ailill wrote:

sethkoopa wrote:
and I just like to know what she's saying in those Irish or other language songs.

You're quite right, I'm the same. Yet the song is never the same when you know the words.

I dunno...sometimes the only thing that keeps me from killing my husband and daughter when they get going about spotting a worm is reminding myself "it's really "is fada liom uaim í"

Redwolf

Hehehe same here with the misinterpreted lyrics - I try my best to keep serene with my flatmate here making up all kinds of nonsense to approximate what's being sung on my Lasairfhíona CD

The sad thing is he's picked up only three Irish words, and one of them he can use properly

I had been listening to Irish music as he got back from work, then I turned it off and went to go do some washing up, and he puts in a Suicide Commando CD (this is really noisy trash industrial music) and of course, I make a face of despair and ask him what's up with that...

his reply (I shit you not!) : díoltas! (and pronounced right as well!)

But that's the only Irish word he can readily recall other than "an cat" (which he messes up in pronunciation) I'll be in big trouble if he ever learns what "amadán" means