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PostPosted: Fri 04 Nov 2011 9:43 pm 
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Chivvy - ag clamhsán ?

Grown-ups say things like - Labhraíonn rudaí (or Bíonn ag caint?) na daoine fásta ar nós
Speak up - Labhair amach
Don't stare - Ná bí ag stánadh (?)
Don't point - Ná bí ag diriú do mhéar (?)
Don't pick your nose - Ná bí ag piocadh do shrón (?)
Sit up - Suigh aniar
Say please - Abair le do thoil
Less noise - níos lú tormán (?) (but is there a better way of saying this?)
Shut the door behind you - Dún an doras i do dhiaidh
Don't drag your feet - Ná bí ag tarraingt do chosa
Haven't you got a hankie? - Nach bhfuil ciarsúir agat?

Take your hands out of your pockets - Bain do lámha as do phócaí
Pull your socks up - Ardaigh do stocaí
Stand up straight - Seas go direach
Say thank you - Abair go raibh maith agat
Don't interrupt - Ná bí ag cur do ladhar isteach
No one thinks you're funny - Ní cheapann éinne go bhfuil tú greannmhar/barrúil
Take your elbows off the table - Tabhair do uilleanna ón bord
Can't you make your own mind up about anything? - Nach bhfuil intinn agat féin?

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PostPosted: Fri 04 Nov 2011 10:21 pm 
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Chivvy - ag clamhsán ?

Grown-ups say things like - Labhraíonn rudaí (or Bíonn ag caint?) na daoine fásta ar nós


deireann na daoiní fásta rudaí cosúil le/ar nós:

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Speak up - Labhair amach


labhair níos airde

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Don't stare - Ná bí ag stánadh (?)
Don't point - Ná bí ag diriú do mhéar (?)


díriú do mhéire i dtreo duine ineacht?

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Less noise - níos lú tormán (?) (but is there a better way of saying this?)


déan níos lú calláin
bí níos ciúine

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Shut the door behind you - Dún an doras i do dhiaidh


ok, Ulster "druid a' doras 'do dhiaidh"

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Don't drag your feet - Ná bí ag tarraingt do chosa
Haven't you got a hankie? - Nach bhfuil ciarsúir agat?


ciarsúr (singular)
in Ulster I think we'd say "haincearsan"

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Take your hands out of your pockets - Bain do lámha as do phócaí
Pull your socks up - Ardaigh do stocaí


i don't think it's "ardaigh" but I'm not sure what it is instead.

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Take your elbows off the table - Tabhair do uilleanna ón bord


I'd say "bain d'uilneacha den tábla" / den bhord
(from+on is "de", normally)

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Can't you make your own mind up about anything? - Nach bhfuil intinn agat féin?


make your mind is "déan do chomhairle", if I remember well

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PostPosted: Sat 05 Nov 2011 12:14 am 
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franc 91 wrote:
Chivvy

I'm not familiar with that word so I looked it up.
Cambridge online dictionary says -
"to encourage someone to do something they do not want to do"

clamhsán - is to complain or grumble.
Especially but not exclusively when children do it.

franc 91 wrote:
Speak up - Labhair amach

You can say that too.

franc 91 wrote:
Don't stare - Ná bí ag stánadh

Yes. (but personally I'd just say - ná bí ag breathnú (looking).

franc 91 wrote:
Less noise

ciúnas !!!! :D

franc 91 wrote:
Take your hands out of your pockets - Bain do lámha as do phócaí
Pull your socks up - Ardaigh do stocaí
Stand up straight - Seas go direach


Nothing wrong with that.
But personally I'd say -
Tóig do lámha aníos as do phócaí.
tarraing suas do chuid stocaí.
Seas suas díreach.

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Don't interrupt - Ná bí ag cur do ladhar isteach

I haven't heard that.
I think you might mean "ladar" (spoon).
It might be slightly rude to say that to somebody.

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PostPosted: Sat 05 Nov 2011 7:56 pm 
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Go raibh maith agaibh - this is something I asked about a long time ago at the other place, so it was Fiairefeadha who gave me (among other phrases)- Árdaigh do stocaí, seas do díreach, ná bí ag cur do ladhar isteach (which is a bit like saying - don't stick your oar in, I suppose) though I would prefer to have a more polite way of saying.
I made one memorable gaffe for - take your elbows off the table - by posting:- bain do uilleanna as an bord!


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PostPosted: Sat 05 Nov 2011 11:16 pm 
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Bríd Mhór wrote:
franc 91 wrote:
Don't interrupt - Ná bí ag cur do ladhar isteach

I haven't heard that.
I think you might mean "ladar" (spoon).
It might be slightly rude to say that to somebody.


How about, 'ná cur isteach orm'? I'm not totally sure if it fits the bill.

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PostPosted: Sun 06 Nov 2011 9:03 am 
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I have a vague memory of someone somewhere using - bris isteach or something like that to mean - to butt in.
Looking in the dictionary I've found the verb - trasnaigh (but apparently that can also mean to contradict) and téigh roimh, cuir isteach ar and bris isteach ar.


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