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HELP IRISH TRANSLATIONS

fiona12 · 2009-09-23 18:00:55

I'm losing the will to live here! Trying to help 1st year with irish homework and need the following translated please a hoige ar n-ait dhuchais a heochracha Many thanks!

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23-09-2009 7:00pm

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fiona12

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I'm losing the will to live here! Trying to help 1st year with irish homework and need the following translated please

a hoige
ar n-ait dhuchais
a heochracha

Many thanks!

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#2 23-09-2009 7:05pm
lasair

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a hóige- her youth
ar n-ait dhuchais- the place where we hail from/ where we come from/ where we were born.
a heochracha- her keys

presuming this is grammar tell them that the úrú "h/n" comes before the guta (vowel) as a is a vowel and 2 vowels require úrú when coming together...

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#3 23-09-2009 7:06pm
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her youth,
our native place
her keys.

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#4 23-09-2009 7:09pm
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http://translate.google.com/translate_t#ga|en|%20heochracha%0D%0A

Google translate now does Irish to English translations !!!

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#5 23-09-2009 7:17pm
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lasair, can you correct me on this, i'm wondering...

if the word begins with a consonant, say gluaistean, when it's his car, is it 'a ghluaistean,' whereas for her car, it's 'a gluaistean'

and then the opposite for words beginning with vowels, as in this case
'a heochracha' would mean her keys and 'a eochracha' would mean his keys?

or was i just not paying enough attention??

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#6 24-09-2009 12:02am
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I'm with ballsymchugh on this!

her youth
our native place
her keys

pretty sure this is it:D

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#7 24-09-2009 8:48am
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No your right and good question....

"a" when it means him takes a "h" as it is masculine where as "a" for females doesn.
yup, the opposite for vowels...

if you want any grammer notes/help pm me (irish teacher)and il send some to you either my email or snail mail...

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#8 24-09-2009 1:44pm
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http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=904

The Gaegile Forum could help in the future

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#9 24-09-2009 5:15pm
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Try www.focal.ie as well, of course.

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#10 24-09-2009 7:05pm
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Thank you all again for all your help, all his homework was correct thanks to you!

As I am foreign, I find it very hard to help.

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#11 01-10-2009 8:29am
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fiona12 wrote: »

Thank you all again for all your help, all his homework was correct thanks to you!

As I am foreign, I find it very hard to help.

What a good mammy!

If you're interested, you could probably find a good Irish course in your local tech - or if you want to go for the heavy stuff, do the intensive course Gael-Linn runs, which will give you the basics in a few weeks. (http://www.gael-linn.ie/glinn/LearnIrish.aspx)

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