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I have been working on learning Gaeilge for years and it is coming painfully slowly, (living in California might have a little to do with that). So I am working on making signs and the one I am currently working on is "Please place aluminium cans here".

So if anyone could help me I would be grateful.

I am also working on a tee shirt for a friend and she wants it to read "A man did this to me." or "My husband did this to me".

TIA

Aimireal

A Shomhairle,
I'm not sure I feel comfortable with the verb placement there. It appears a bit too anglicized for me. (I could be wrong...Back to the books!)
Anyway, how 'bout something like, "Chuir fear seo orm." or "Dhéan fear seo asam." ?
Chuir mo fhear céile seo orm.
Dhéan mo fhear céile seo asam.
-Maidhc.

Place aluminum cans here:

Cuir stáin alúmanaim anseo

A man did this to me:

Is fear a rinne seo orm.

My husband did this to me:

Is é m'fhear céile a rinne seo orm

aimireal wrote:I have been working on learning Gaeilge for years and it is coming painfully slowly, (living in California might have a little to do with that). So I am working on making signs and the one I am currently working on is "Please place aluminium cans here".

So if anyone could help me I would be grateful.

I am also working on a tee shirt for a friend and she wants it to read "A man did this to me." or "My husband did this to me".

TIA

Aimireal

maybe

Cuirigí cannaí alúmanacha anseo, le bhur dtoil
Please place aluminium cans here

Rinne fear seo dom
A man did this to me

Rinne m'fhear céile seo dom
My husband did this to me

Aimireal:

Connor gave you another good possibility for your sign. It depends if you want you sign to be speaking to one person or to many people (we don't have this problem in English!)

If you're taking about aluminum cans for sodas and beer, so with cannaí. If you included stuff light fruit and soups and dog food and stuff, go with stáin.

Cuirigí cannaí alúmanaim anseo
Cuirigí stáin alúmanaim anseo

As for "A man/my husband did this to me"

"rinne fear seo dom" means "a man did this FOR me"
"rinne fear seo orm" means "a man did this TO me"

oisin718 wrote:If you're taking about aluminum cans for sodas and beer, so with cannaí. If you included stuff light fruit and soups and dog food and stuff, go with stáin.

Cuirigí cannaí alúmanaim anseo
Cuirigí stáin alúmanaim anseo

donal - no need for the "i" in "alúmanam", is there?

I thought so, to make it genitive:

aluminium can -- can of aluminium - canna alúmanaim

yeah but "cans" are a plural noun

the plural genetive of alúmanam is the same as the nom sg

1st declension

cat - nom sg
cait - gen sg

cait - nom pl
cat - gen pl




milseán - nom sg
milseáin - gen sg

milseáin - nom pl
milseán - gen pl




etc etc

I see where you're going, but it seems you've got this a bit confused.

A noun in the genitive case behaves like an adjective, but is not inflected like one.

cannaí alúmanam would be "cans of aluminums"

Look at it this way:

bróg an fhir -- the man's shoe
bróga an fhir -- the man's shoes
bróga na bhfir -- the men's shoes

the genitive noun doesn't change just because the noun it describes is in the plural!