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Hi i was wondering how to say "i love you my dark angel" in gaelic

There's different ways to say it, but I would say "Tá grá agam ort, m'aingeal dorcha." - I think this is accurate, but wait for other opinions.

Looks fine to me.

However, others maintain that ort should be replaced with duit

Don't know if ort is wrong, doesn't seem so to me.

Is that a matter of dialect or what? In any case, imho, duit sounds better than ort.

Both "ort" and "duit" are acceptable, but "duit" is more common and does, indeed, sound better.

I love you, my dark angel:

Tá mó ghrá duit, a aingeal dorcha

My first instinct was to inflect it as "a aingil dhorcha," but I remembered that rule of metaphorical terms of endearment that Méabh reminded me of: since the person being addressed is (probably) not an actual dark angel, it is not inflected for the vocative case.

oisin718 wrote:Both "ort" and "duit" are acceptable, but "duit" is more common and does, indeed, sound better.

I love you, my dark angel:

Tá mó ghrá duit, a aingeal dorcha

My first instinct was to inflect it as "a aingil dhorcha," but I remembered that rule of metaphorical terms of endearment that Méabh reminded me of: since the person being addressed is (probably) not an actual dark angel, it is not inflected for the vocative case.

But, i mean if someone calls you "a thaisce" you aren't really literally "treasure" are you?


IMHO, I think

Tá grá agam dhuit, a Aingil Dhorcha

would be better..........

certain ones are exempt like a thaisce

but

a rún
a stór
a anam


it's in Christian Brothers

eerrr , so it is!!

But anyway, "taisce" ends in a vowel: only masculine first declension nouns that end in a broad consonant get inflected in the vocative case, so "taisce" wouldn't change even if you WERE addressing an actual treasure!

Since "aingeal" is masculine, first declension, and ends in broad consonant, it COULD be inflected in the vocative--if you were talking to an actual dark angel! Since I assume one isn't, no inflection!