Irish Translation Forum

...and how do you pronounce it?

Also, how do you write/pronounce:
--hello
--goodbye
--thank you
--good luck
--my love/my wife
--my friend

Thanks for your help!!!

Your names Gaillimhabu and you don't know what "go raibh maith agat" means ?

go raibh maith agat - Thanks

Pronounced like "GOO ROUWW MYY OOG-AT"

--hello - Dia Dhuit (To One person) Dia Dhiaobh (To more then one)
--goodbye - Slán (bye)
--thank you - Go raibh maith agat (to one person) Go raibh maith agaibh (to more then one)
--good luck - Ádh mór ort (to one person and it literally means "big/large luck to you" Its not suitable for saying "Good luck" as in "Goodbye".
--my love/my wife - "A chroí" (When talking to them) A banchéile (When talking to her)
"Mo chroí" & mo banchéile when talking about her,
--my friend - "A chara" when talking to them, "Mo chara" when talking about them to someone else.

mcclane wrote:go raibh maith agat - Thanks

Pronounced like "GOO ROUWW MYY OOG-AT"

The Irish people I know pronounce it more like Goh reh maha gut.
Is this a different dialect and if so, which one?

In Ulster, we pronounce it:

/GUH RUH MY ugg-ut/

The Irish people I know pronounce it more like Goh reh maha gut.
Is this a different dialect and if so, which one?

I'm not very good at trying to explain how it sounds

I'm Connacht, by reading the way you've said it thats how i'd say it if i was talking but the way i wrote it was where i was trying to pronounce each word seperately, which was obviously wrong.

mcclane wrote:

The Irish people I know pronounce it more like Goh reh maha gut.
Is this a different dialect and if so, which one?

I'm not very good at trying to explain how it sounds

I'm Connacht, by reading the way you've said it thats how i'd say it if i was talking but the way i wrote it was where i was trying to pronounce each word seperately, which was obviously wrong.

(I wouldn't have known if it was wrong or not. ) I'm glad I got it right and that we agree. My friend says 'Conas atá tú?' as well - so must be Munster then? (I've never asked.)

I've never heard anyone around here, who speaks Irish, say 'my' for 'maith' - perhaps the Ulster speakers go to North Wales.

Ó Siadhail has /gu ru MAHD/ (Go raibh maith 'ad) with "agat" shortened to "'ad" which is a dialectal abbreviation.

In other places, I've heard "raibh" pronounced fully as "rev" /gu REV MAH hagut/

Cymro-Breatnach wrote:I've never heard anyone around here, who speaks Irish, say 'my' for 'maith' - perhaps the Ulster speakers go to North Wales.

Maybe you need to try saying "my" with a Belfast accent!

My friend says 'Conas atá tú?' as well - so must be Munster then? (I've never asked.)

Strangely enough i'm from Connacht but we were always taught "conas atá tú"