Pearl wrote:
Hello, I'm back, I had to find the right tune for the lament, but I'm ready with more lyrics.
Lyrics:
I was abandoned long ago.
Searching for answers.
My heart is broken.
Even though, I still await your return.
I also have a question, again. When people refer to themselves, is every word in the sentence changed based on the gender of them? The person
who's supposedly the creator of this song is a male, so I wanted to make sure it was translated correctly based on that fact.
Tréigeadh mé fadó.
Ag tóraíocht freagraí.
Tá mo chroí briste.
Cé go bh'fanaim fós le d'fhilleadh.The short answer to your question is no.
Nouns in Irish are described as having their own gender. For example,
gluaisteán "car",
geimhreadh "winter" and (ironically)
cailín "girl" are all masculine nouns, while
cláirseach "harp",
fuinneog "window", and
leabharlann "library" are all feminine nouns. This is grammatical gender, and should not be confused or conflated with the gender of any people who may be speaking/writing, or who may be being spoken/written about.
Adjectives which augment a noun can change to agree with the gender of the noun which they affect. So a cold winter would be a
geimhreadh fuar, but a cold library would be a
leabharlann fhuar. A quiet girl (which is a masculine noun, remember) would be a
cailín ciúin but a quiet harp would be a
cláirseach chiúin. Finally, a broken car would be a
gluaisteán briste but a broken window would be a
fuinneog bhriste.
Pronouns too, which refer to a noun, will alternate to reflect the gender of the noun itself EXCEPT if the noun represents a person. In other words, where we would say "it" in English, referring to something we have been speaking about, in Irish we would say
é "he" or
í "she" instead. So, if you were trying to say "it is a nice car" you would say
is gluaisteán deas é, literally "he is a nice car", and if you wanted to say "it is a nice harp", you would say
is cláirseach dheas í, literally "she is a nice harp". The exception, as I mentioned above, is where you're speaking about a person. So, if you wanted to say "she is a quiet girl", even though
cailín "girl" is a masculine noun, you would still say
is cailín ciúin í, literally "she is a quiet girl", because you're talking about the person.