Hello and thank you for reading.

I am an American of Irish decent (3 out of 4 grandparents are of Irish decent with my paternal grandfather actually from Ireland).

I went onto a translation site called imtranslator.net to find the translation for "self love" or "love yourself".

It gave me the following: grá féin

Could a knowledgeable Irish Gaelic speaker please confirm or deny this?

If this is wrong, may I please have the correct translation? I would be ever so appreciative.

I am in a bit of a time crunch. It is a gift for someone special's birthday (August 15th).

Thank you so much for your time.

Many blessings.

elemental_songstress

"Féinghrá" might work as an awkward, narcissistic compound word, but "grá féin" is meaningless.

http://focal.ie/Search.aspx?term=self-love&lang=3116649

"Tabhair grá duit féin" could translate as "Love yourself", but there's a slight risk it could also be misunderstood as an instruction to masturbate...

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Self-love and Love yourself are dubious enough in English, and even more contrived in Irish, as yer man said in the other post.

Perhaps something like

Bí dílis duit féin - Be true to yourself ..????
corrected
Grma Lughaidh

this means "be faithful to myself"
you probably meant "bí dílis duit féin"?

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This is too funny in more ways than one.

I was rather vague about the "special person" for which this saying is for...it is actually for me....but goodness it is the COMPLETE opposite of narcissism.

I am planning on getting a tattoo for my 40th birthday. To avoid going into detail...it has been a hard year that put my self worth in the toilet for a bit...and I wanted to get a reminder to remember to love yourself...but not in the "naughty" way.

You always hear the horror stories of a person getting a Japanese or Chinese character that means "soup" or "smelly breath" (for example)...I didn't go into too much detail as to who or what it was for...JUST IN CASE there were some jokesters on this site and they gave me a meaning that would have said...well, perhaps...instructions to masturbate.

I appreciate the honesty MORE THAN YOU KNOW...

How embarrassing would that be if I were to go to Ireland in the near future with a tattoo that calls me a "narcissistic masturbator"?

I appreciate everyone's help! Thank you!

To be fair, most people would probably assume the more innocent meaning!
I have a habit of spotting naughtiness where none is intended.

Don't give up hope on it yet. There are some great posters on this forum who should be able to come up with a phrase that captures the meaning you seek.

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So my dyslexic freudian slip was inadvertently right.... ...dom féin

So:

bí dílis dom féin---means "be faithful to me"

bí dílis duit féin---means "be loyal to yourself"

Which one would be best...remember no "soups" or "smelly breath" translations

????

I got a bit confused.

Don't worry, there's nobody around here who would do that.
There may be people who are sometimes mistaken, but NOBODY would deliberately lead you astray – you've got the "Official Wee Falorie Man Guarantee" on that one!

I'd definitely go with:
Bí dílis duit féin. – Be true (faithful) to yourself.

I think "Bí dílis dom féin" sounds ridiculous because you would be using the 2nd person imperative to order someone to be faithful to you. Sounds kinda silly, eh? Actually, I think that the word dom in this sentence was just a typo anyway that was later corrected to duit.

Yes that was me just being a bit silly in my second post here, sorry for any confusion I caused.

Bí dílis duit féin was indeed what I meant to write.

As WeeFalorieMan says you wouldn't use the second person imperative in the context of telling yourself to be faithful to yourself, but if you did want to tell yourself to be faithful to yourself what would you use?

Bím dílis dom féin? ???

would be my idea but I'm sure there must be a better way...

(I think I'm confusing myself.)