Can anyone Convert:

"a Mother's Love Lives Forever"

please?
Thanks, in advance

Peadar

Not exact and maybe not close enough for you - 'Bíonn grá an máthair ann go deo'
I am trying for 'a mother's love is there forever'. máthair is feminine so presumably that would make it na something? I have now confused myself!

Wait for the more learned folk. I await it myself!

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Thank You.

Don't thank me! I am learning off the back of your request! Somebody will be along shortly to help you out though.

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Thanks for getting it started, a Shaoirse. As you suspected, I think it should be grá na máthar.

Because mair also means "last, endure", I think we can use it here too:

Maireann grá na máthar go deo

Await correction or confirmation ...

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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).

Grá na máthar(a) = the mother's love

Grá máthar(a) = a mother's love.

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Is fearr Gaeilg na Gaeltaċta ná Gaeilg ar biṫ eile
Agus is í Gaeilg Ġaoṫ Doḃair is binne

I'd like to offer the following which has a kind of traditional structure, I reckon:

Is buan grá máthar.

Would others contributors say it has the connotation of 'constant' or 'everlasting' or both?

Although that English logic doesn't quite work in Irish†, I think you might be correct in this instance.


† The definite article works completely differently in Irish. In particular, the definite article is used with a singular noun to represent generic cases and abstract concepts in Irish, where English will use a singular or a plural noun with no article or personification:

aois na hóige "the age of youth" literally "age of the youth"
aois na glóire "the age of glory" literally "age of the glory"
Is maith an scéalaí an aimsir. "Time is a good storyteller" literally "the time is the good storyteller"
in aghaidh an bháis "against death" literally "against the death"
Ní haon ualach an chiall. "Sense is no burden" literally "the sense is no burden"
fear na céille "a man of sense" literally "man of the sense"

None of these would make sense translated literally into the other language. English and Irish have their own separate logic systems.


Yes, that's much nicer, scooby, though I would prefer it as:

Is buan é grá máthar.


(Although the é is designated "optional" in the Caighdeán Oifigiúil, it is used in two of the major dialects and only Ulster really omits it. I might be wrong but I feel the CO uses "optional" so as not to exclude the usage in that dialect.)

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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).

I agree with Scooby's suggestion.