Maria Jordan-Lloyd wrote:
This is Teddy Tigger, our school mascot. I am very happy to have Tigger. I rode on my bike with Tigger and jumped on my trampoline with him. I cuddled Tigger and my brother Oisin gave him a kiss.
My 6 year old said it is "Tá seo Tiger on scoil teddy. Tá me an sasta atá Tigger agam. Dul mé ar mo rother le Tigger agus léim mé ar mo trampoline le Tigger. Cuddle me le Tigger agus póg mo Oisin le".
Hi, Maria.
In principle, homework needs to be done by the student himself/herself to have any benefit.
However since you've made an attempt (or is this Google translate?), here are some suggestions so that you can understand the underlying grammar. Remember also that there is often more than one correct way to say anything.
Seo é Teddy Tigger, ár sonóg scoile. Tá only works for describing the state of something, not to equate what it is. For equation you need the copula
is. In this case,
seo will do the work but there is really a hidden copula at work:
You can use
Seo é ... or
Seo í ... to introduce people or things.
Sonóg is another word for "mascot", though
mascot could conceivably be used as a loan word without modification because it already obeys the rules of Irish spelling.
Sonóg ár scoile might be even better.
Tá mé an-sásta go bhfuil Tigger agam.The hyphen is very important with
an-, otherwise it just looks like the definite article
an "the".
The idiom here is
sásta go bhfuil rather than
sásta atá. In general,
atá is only apppended to nouns except in inverted sentences but that's another story.
Chuaigh/Mharcaigh mé ar mo rothar le Tigger agus léim mé ar mo thrampailín leis.Dul is "going" or "to go", here you need the past form of the verb, which would be
chuaigh for "went", or
mharcaigh for "rode"
Mhuirnigh mé Tigger agus thug mo dheartháir Oisín póg dó.The idiom for "to kiss someone" in Irish is "póg a thabhairt do dhuine".
Póg mé is a short way to say
póg mo thóin and so best avoided. "Kiss me" is
Tabhair póg dom.Await further corrections ...