I thought that if someone comes across an interesting phrase (not seanfhocail - for that go to viewtopic.php?f=28&t=902), but a handy phrase that they did not know before or that they think may be useful for someone trying to use Irish in everyday situations, it might be fun to make a list.

They will obviously be very random, but that's part of what is interesting.

steall bhainne = dash of milk (source: focal.ie)

I came across this today; I usually say 'braon beag', but I like the sound of 'steall bhainne'.

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salachair báistí - drizzling rain

bheith ar leathchois - to have only one leg

smugairle róin - a jelly-fish, literally: seal's snot

streall is anything that streams, water, milk...
Ag strealladh is pissing.



That's put me off my rasher sandwich (opps I shouldn't have said that on Good Friday)

In Conamara at least smugairle is (thick) spit, smaois is snot.

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It is recommended that you always wait for three to agree on a translation.
I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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with an 'r'?

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I hadn't realised I spelt it differently. I say it with an R.
And "streall" is in Ó Dónaill as a variation.

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It is recommended that you always wait for three to agree on a translation.
I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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Ní mé an bhfuil siad ag teacht - I wonder if they are coming
Máirtín Ó Cadhain(Connemara) uses ''Ní mé to express ''I wonder(speculate). In Munster I think they say 'Nfheadar an bhfuil siad ag teacht. Ní mé cad a deireann siad i gCúige Ulaidh ?

N'fheadar is "I don't know" in Munster Irish.
I can't remember what we'd say in Ulster. Maybe "níl a's agam" but there may be something else...
Tá mé 'gabháil a chuartú...

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N'fheadar = Ní fios ... I don't know

...but can't it used in a 'I dunno, let me think' (=I wonder) kind of way?

Mac Cionnaith's English-Irish dictionary (with dialectal indications) doesn't give any specific way to say "I wonder" in Ulster Irish (I think I didn't even see "ní mé" for C Irish)...

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In "Cré na Cille"(Ó'Cadhain) :
Ní mé an ar Áit an Phúint nó na Cúig Déag atá mé curtha.?

In Dineen's dictionary he gives for "ní fheadar"
ní fheadar=I wonder
ní fheadar an bhfuil sé pósta?= I wonder is he married?
I've heard it used in this manner in the Tipperary-Waterford region...