Irish Translation Forum

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Here are a few ways of wishing your fellow humans (or, if you want, your pints of Guinness, or your cats, or your teapots) a Happy St. Patrick's Day, and a few other goodies! A 'probably good enough for pub talk' pronunciation is listed below the translation.

These are taken from our Frequent Translation section on the left. It's a fun place to explore.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! (singular)
Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Duit
La ale-lah pwad-rig son-ah ditch

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! (plural)
Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh
La ale-lah pwad-rig son-ah jeev

St. Patrick’s Day Blessings
Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig!
Ban-ick-tee na fay-lah pwad-rig

St. Patrick’s Day Blessing On You (singular)
Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig ort!
Ban-ick-tee na fay-lah pwad-rig ort

St. Patrick’s Day Blessing On You (plural)
Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh!
Ban-ick-tee na fay-lah pwad-rig or-iv

Ireland Forever
Éire go Brách
Air-rah guh braw

I’m Irish!
Is Éireannach mé!
Iss air-in-ack may

Health and Wealth!
Sláinte is táinte!
slawn-chah iss tan-chah

A pint of Guinness, please
Pionta Guinness, le do thoil
Pine-tah Guinness, le doh hull

A pint of green beer, please
Truly, this is an abomination. Please don't.

Where will you be wetting the shamrock?
Cá mbeidh tú ag fliuchadh na seamróige?
Ka may two ig fluck-ooh na sham-roge-ah

Luck of the Irish
Ádh na nÉireannach
ah na nare-in-ack

Kiss me, I’m Irish
Tabhair póg dom, is Éireannach mé
Toe-er pog do, iss air-in-ack may

Give me the same as the man on the floor!
Tabhair dom an rud céanna mar atá ag an fhear ar an t-úrlar!

yort wrote:Give me the same as the man on the floor!
Tabhair dom an rud céanna mar atá ag an fhear ar an t-úrlar!

Ha. It's the day itself and you're seein things, my friend.

Fixed above, although I don't have the Ultimate Cosmic Power to fix it in the Frequent Translation Section.

And, in honour of the day, here's the only version of this song I can endure:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCbuRA_D3KU

thank you for this!!

Oops! Think that should be ar an urlár. (fada on the á instead of the u, no t- prefix in the dative.)

I'd also go for an rud céanna agus atá rather than mar atá... open to correction on that one though.

Dia daoibh, a chairde.

Lá fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh!

Have been celebrated the day with traditional Irish breakfast (heavy, but delicious!) at Tir na nÓg (the Irish pub of Aarhus).

And return again this evening for Irish stew, Guinness, music and fun!

Hope you all enjoy the day.

(And it's too long time ago I've been in here, I know... :p)

Regards.
AnnePande.

(Or as one at another forum put it by turning it around: EdnaPenna.)

Aibigéal wrote:Oops! Think that should be ar an urlár. (fada on the á instead of the u, no t- prefix in the dative.)

I'd also go for an rud céanna agus atá rather than mar atá... open to correction on that one though.

D'oh! lol
Looks like I still have more to learn hehe, apologizes and thanks.

-I still say it LOOKS better as "ar an t-úrlar" lol but I digress...

Am I right in seeing that this thread has got nearly 8000 view in just 3/4 days?