Balipio wrote:
Thanks Domhnaillin......I will check the corrections. I have a good Irish friend who checks my write ups, but she is from Dublin. Gaeilge is not her native language, so I am sure she has missed a few things.
Let me know if you see any more.
Oh, there are plenty more.
Ní féidir liom titim ina chodladh literally means "It's not possible for me to fall into
his sleep"; it should be
i mo chodladh. The plural I learned for "sheep" is
caoirigh, not *
caoraigh--or is that a dialect form from somewhere? In the verbal noun phrase, prepositional objects (unlike direct objects) come after, not before, e.g.
caoirigh a chomhaireamh but not *
linn a chomhaireamh (which is false anyway, as--go bhfios dom--
comhaireamh takes a direct object and not a prepositional one).
Also, I'm not a fluent speaker, but I find a lot of the sentences sound too literally translated. For instance,
seachrán saor:
seachrán already means "straying", so the
saor adds nothing (and should probably be preceded by
go since it's being used adverbially). I learned that
chomh must be used with
seo with adjectives to express "so", e.g.
chomh tuirseach seo "as tired as this". And that an
iarracht is something you
tabhair ar a thing, not something you
déan le (although I do see some people using
déan iarracht to mean "try to [do something] rather than simply "make an effort").
I never want to say too much, since there's a good chance some of these features are acceptable, just not part of what I've been exposed to. But some of the errors are so basic (like using
tréad as a verb) that I wonder how decent your friend's Irish really is. If you find yourself looking up a lot of words in an English-to-Irish dictionary, it really behooves you to check them in an Irish-to-English one before you try using them.
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