An oiread dhe = the amount of it

It's actually sort of both a pronoun and preposition, known as....(dramatic pause)....a prepositional pronoun, a special feature of the Celtic languages
where they lump prepositions and pronouns together, like le + mé = liom, Welsh does the same as does Breton.

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The dialect I use is Cork Irish.
Ar sgáth a chéile a mhairid na daoine, lag agus láidir, uasal is íseal

Ceart go leor - go raibh maith agat

No wonder I couldn't decide which it was.

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It is recommended that you always wait for three to agree on a translation.
I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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Don't let me suggesting something stop other people giving their own translations or improving on mine.

Standard spelling: an oiread de

Yes I did finally manage to work out that dhe equals de - I wouldn't have dreamed of putting it there myself, but there you go - you learn every time. Now what's that next silly question I had in the back of my mind?

Google did a decent job in this case, except for some missing words: The German translates as:
"Water is not there for [the] drinking, otherwise God would not have salted so much of it."

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I'm not a native (or entirely fluent) speaker, so be sure to wait for confirmations/corrections, especially for tattoos.

Yes I did realise that da meant there - so it would be - "Water isn't there for (the) drinking....."
Curiously there's a slightly different version on other German websites -

"Wasser ist eine Flüssigkeit (leacht), die nicht zum Trinken da ist, sonst hätte Gott nicht soviel davon gesalzen.

Germans love their long sentences . If Behan said it at all I'm sure he would be more poetic.



But if you want to add "there", which I don't think is necessary, I'd add "ann".

Níl uisce ann le n-ól....

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It is recommended that you always wait for three to agree on a translation.
I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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They've now changed the quotations that they put up on their site, here are the two that they have there at the moment -

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relatives. Oscar Wilde

I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not. Brendan Behan

Would anyone like to put those two into Irish ?