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franc 91
PostPosted: Wed 21 Sep 2011 8:21 am 
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How do you say - it can't be helped ? le bhur dtoil
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Breandán
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franc 91 wrote:
How do you say - it can't be helped ? le bhur dtoil

Níl neart air.

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My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
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Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).
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franc 91
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Go raibh maith agat arís
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Gumbi
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Breandán wrote:
franc 91 wrote:
How do you say - it can't be helped ? le bhur dtoil

Níl neart air.

Also, Níl leigheas air
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Bríd Mhór
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Breandán wrote:
franc 91 wrote:
How do you say - it can't be helped ? le bhur dtoil

Níl neart air.


:yes:

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franc 91
PostPosted: Wed 21 Sep 2011 11:43 am 
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I think I'd better give you the context -

And they galloped on through the night
and 'twasn't long until the horses were getting a bit tired.
And then the horse she was riding
stumbled and got a lame ankle.
"Ah" he said "we'll have to leave the poor beast
and you just sit up and ride my horse behind me."
"Ah" she said "we'd be very slow."
"(It) can't be helped", he said,
so she got up behind him and rode pillion, behind him.
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Dairín
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I think this 'it can't be helped' means 'it can't be avoided'.

How about

Níl dul as.
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Gumbi
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Dairín wrote:
I think this 'it can't be helped' means 'it can't be avoided'.

How about

Níl dul as.

That's the one I always use :yes: Níl aon dul as
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Bríd Mhór
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Gumbi wrote:
Dairín wrote:
I think this 'it can't be helped' means 'it can't be avoided'.

How about

Níl dul as.

That's the one I always use :yes: Níl aon dul as


yeah, that's good too.

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Scooby
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Níl neart air was the first think that sprang to mind.

I'd use Níl aon dul as (againn) also

I agree that Níl leigheas air or perhaps Níl leigheas ar bith ar an scéal works too

and in the context Níl an dara rogha againn probably works too.
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