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PostPosted: Wed 19 Apr 2017 10:51 pm 
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Dia dhuit!
I have got a best friend boy (his name is Ángel). I often say that it is my "anam cara", but I do not know if I should write "mo" or "m" in front of "anam".
For exemple: "Ángel, you are my "anam cara"? What is the translation on Irish?
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PostPosted: Thu 20 Apr 2017 11:25 am 
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Adrian1994 wrote:
Dia dhuit!
I have got a best friend boy (his name is Ángel). I often say that it is my "anam cara", but I do not know if I should write "mo" or "m" in front of "anam".
For exemple: "Ángel, you are my "anam cara"? What is the translation on Irish?
Go raibh maith agat.

"Anam Cara" is not a term in Irish for soulmate. It should be "anamchara" if properly spelled, and even then it doesn't work for what you want most likely. There's a good post here explaining the nuances of soulmate, you should find it helpful.

http://www.bitesize.irish/blog/irish-endearments/


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In connection with your post, "anam cara" in Gaeilge have any meaning? Syntactically, is not correct?
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Adrian1994 wrote:
In connection with your post, "anam cara" in Gaeilge have any meaning? Syntactically, is not correct?
Go raibh maith agat.



"anamchara" (only correct spelling) is a "spiritual adviser" or "ghostly father"

A Angél, is tusa m’anamchara = Angél, you are my spiritual adviser.


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Adrian1994 wrote:
In connection with your post, "anam cara" in Gaeilge have any meaning? Syntactically, is not correct?
Go raibh maith agat.


Syntactically it's an absolute mess. Two Irish words jammed together using English syntax.

If you absolutely wanted to use "anam" and "cara" to say "soul friend," it would have to be "cara m'anama." But if you're trying to say "soulmate," there are many more naturally Irish ways to express that concept.

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PostPosted: Sat 22 Apr 2017 11:19 am 
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Syntactically it's an absolute mess. Two Irish words jammed together using English syntax.


that's true most of the time, but in old words, sometimes one finds the elements put together in this order.
"Anam-chara" can be found in Dinneen's dictionary, it says:

"anam-chara [...] a soul-friend, a confessor, chaplain, spiritual adviser."

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Lughaidh wrote:
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Syntactically it's an absolute mess. Two Irish words jammed together using English syntax.


that's true most of the time, but in old words, sometimes one finds the elements put together in this order.
"Anam-chara" can be found in Dinneen's dictionary, it says:

"anam-chara [...] a soul-friend, a confessor, chaplain, spiritual adviser."


I actually speculate in my book that the misspelling "Anam Cara" may have come from typesetters leaving the dot off the "C" in the title of O'Donohue's book "Anam Cara" (the original had a dot over the C, but subsequent editions and writings about it do not. Still wasn't hyphenated, though.

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