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PostPosted: Mon 23 Mar 2015 10:00 pm 
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What does ... Enjoy life!

and .. Live and love!

in gaelic mean?


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PostPosted: Mon 23 Mar 2015 11:25 pm 
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Magoushla wrote:
What does ... Enjoy life!

and .. Live and love!

in gaelic mean?


Enjoy life: Bain sult as an saol (literally "reap enjoyment/pleasure from life")

"Live" and "love" aren't really verb forms in Irish, so we usually recommend:

Beatha agus Grá: Life and Love

Wait for more input, please.

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PostPosted: Tue 24 Mar 2015 4:11 am 
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Thank you so much Redwolf!

Im sad to hear that there is no real translation for ' live and love!' though!


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PostPosted: Tue 24 Mar 2015 5:21 am 
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I'm sad to hear that there is no real translation for ' live and love!' though!


Irish can be much more noun-oriented than verb-oriented, especially in the area of emotions, but that leads to forms which can seem very expressive or even poetic when translated into English. So, to say that you love someone, one usually says, for example, Tá grá agam di ("I have love for her") [literally: "There is love at me for her", where the "there is ... at me" part is simply the way to say "I have" in Irish] or Tá grá agam uirthi [literally: "There is love at me on her"].

Other emotions are handled in a similar way. For example, instead of saying, "I'm afraid", one says Tá eagla orm ("There is fear on me").

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PostPosted: Tue 24 Mar 2015 5:39 am 
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Thx Caoimhim!

I really love that about gaelic...that it is so poetic!

Do you know another expression for: Love life! .....?


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PostPosted: Tue 24 Mar 2015 5:43 am 
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or ..Enjoy life to it's most!!!!


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PostPosted: Tue 24 Mar 2015 3:17 pm 
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Magoushla wrote:
or ..Enjoy life to it's most!!!!


A fairly common Irish expression with that meaning is Bain ceol as an saol ("reap/derive music from life")

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PostPosted: Tue 24 Mar 2015 4:56 pm 
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whats the difference to: Bain sult as an saol. ? I would like to know the exact translation plz.


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PostPosted: Tue 24 Mar 2015 5:35 pm 
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Magoushla wrote:
whats the difference to: Bain sult as an saol. ? I would like to know the exact translation plz.


I gave you an exact translation for both of them. *

"Sult" means "pleasure/enjoyment." "Ceol" means "music." I would say it's a more poetic way of saying the same thing.

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* Edited to add, I just noticed that I hadn't given the literal translation for "bain sult as an saol." I've gone back and corrected that. Basically, though, they're the same sentence, with "music" (ceol) used instead of "sult" (pleasure/enjoyment).


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PostPosted: Tue 24 Mar 2015 5:51 pm 
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Ok thx!
And can u think of any literal poetic translation of : live and love!
I would really like to express exactly this!


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