Hi there, just wondering if anyone could please translate this for me, any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Lisa

Ghoid tú mo chroí
‘you stole my heart’

The simple past tense would more commonly be used in Irish than the perfect tense here. Tá mo chroí goidte agat doesn’t flow nearly as well.

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Not a native speaker.

Always wait for at least three people to agree on a translation, especially if it’s for something permanent.

My translations are usually GU (Ulster Irish), unless CO (Standard Orthography) is requested.

How about this?
Tá tú i ndiaidh mo chroí a ghoid

Definitely wait for a confirmation on this one - I'm trying to think of another way to say 'have stolen', but I'm not sure of the construction.

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I'm only a learner, so please help me by correcting my mistakes - I won't be offended!

I don't see what's wrong with the latter. Both work in my opinion.

That would be more like "You're after stealing my heart". (Personally I'd use tar éis here)

I know tar éis is more the standard, but we're taught i ndiaidh here in County Down!

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I'm only a learner, so please help me by correcting my mistakes - I won't be offended!

I was just about to say, it's tar éis in the South, i ndiaidh in the North, and th'éis in the West.

There's nothing "non-standard" about Ulster Irish, though personally I wouldn't recommend mixing up the dialects.

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

Yeah, sorry—‘doesn’t flow’ was bad wording, it’s too generic. As phrases, both work fien.

What I meant is that, for “You’ve stolen my heart” (where the focus is on the action of stealing in English), it sounds more natural to me to simply say ghoid tú mo chroí in Irish, using the simple past. If you say tá mo chroí goidte agat, the focus is on the resulting state that the heart is now in, rather than on the act of stealing it. In English, I might even translate that as simply “You have my heart”, or “My heart is in your hands” or something like that (though that leaves out the stealing bit altogether, of course).

Tá tú i ndiaidh/tar éis/th’éis mo chroí a ghoid(eadh) places what I feel is an undue and unneeded stress on the fact that the act of stealing has been carried out to its end as is now just completed.

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Not a native speaker.

Always wait for at least three people to agree on a translation, especially if it’s for something permanent.

My translations are usually GU (Ulster Irish), unless CO (Standard Orthography) is requested.

Or perhaps it's you that has missed the point of the English, kk.

It's not the "stealing" that's important in the phrase "you've stolen my heart" but indeed the state the person is in because of it.

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

Would you really say that “You’ve stolen my heart” focuses more on the guy who’s stolen the heart than on the heart being stolen?

I mean, when talking about the deeper semantic meaning of the phrase as a whole, it’s obviously meant to comment on the state of “I” whose heart has been stolen away from her; but both ghoid tú mo chroí and tá mo chroí goidte agat do that in Irish, so I don’t think that’s really relevant here.

But I would definitely say that ‘you’ve stolen’ in itself focuses more on the verbal action (‘stealing’) and only secondarily on the object (here, the heart). Or, at least, more so than the Irish tá mo chroí goidte agat, where the focus is solely on the state of the object (here promoted to subject), and not at all on the action or the agent, similar to the passive “My heart was stolen (by you)” in English.

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Not a native speaker.

Always wait for at least three people to agree on a translation, especially if it’s for something permanent.

My translations are usually GU (Ulster Irish), unless CO (Standard Orthography) is requested.