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 Post subject: Friend's Marriage
PostPosted: Sun 27 Aug 2017 1:45 am 
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A friend (female) is getting married, and I'm looking for something short and sweet in Irish to put on the greeting card I'm giving her.

Something along the lines of "I love you, my friend"

Now, I think that would be:

Is brea liom thu, a mo bhuanchara

I'm gonna assume that's more than a bit off.
I'd appreciate any corrections to that, and I'd also welcome any completely different suggestions for this situation.

:GRMA:


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 Post subject: Re: Friend's Marriage
PostPosted: Sun 27 Aug 2017 2:56 am 
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Don't forget the fada on breá and thú. But it'd be "a bhuancharad", I think (vocative form of cara, no need for the 'mo').


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 Post subject: Re: Friend's Marriage
PostPosted: Sun 27 Aug 2017 4:42 am 
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Vitaee wrote:
A friend (female) is getting married, and I'm looking for something short and sweet in Irish to put on the greeting card I'm giving her.

Something along the lines of "I love you, my friend"

Now, I think that would be:

Is brea liom thu, a mo bhuanchara

I'm gonna assume that's more than a bit off.
I'd appreciate any corrections to that, and I'd also welcome any completely different suggestions for this situation.

:GRMA:


No, no, and no.

"Is breá liom" is the form you use to say "I love pizza" or "I love New York." You don't use it for people

You can't have both the vocative ("a") and the possessive adjective ("mo"). The second one has to come off.

Mo ghrá thú, a bhuanchara

Or...

Tá grá agam duit, a bhuanchara

Galaxyrocker, as far as I know (unless there's a dialect difference I'm unaware of), "carad" is the genitive, not the vocative (which is why we say "a chara")

Redwolf


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 Post subject: Re: Friend's Marriage
PostPosted: Sun 27 Aug 2017 4:03 pm 
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Thanks guys!!


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