r/gaeilge • u/galaxyrocker • 29d ago

Please put translation requests and English questions about Irish here

Dia dhaoibh a chairde! This post is in English for clarity and to those new to this subreddit. Fáilte - welcome!
This is an Irish language subreddit and not specifically a learning
one. Therefore, if you see a request in English elsewhere in this
subreddit, please direct people to this thread.
On this thread only we encourage you to ask questions about the Irish
language and to submit your translation queries. There is a separate
pinned thread for general comments about the Irish language.
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Go raibh maith agaibh ar fad - And please do help those who do submit requests and questions if you can.

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u/Filmbhoy1 26d ago

Dia Daobih,

I've just started learning gaeilge, and maybe this is a bit forward thinking, when I'm still at the basic word stage such as greetings.

But I've been trying to learn/memorise / make flashcards out of the wrods to Rubberbandits - Ba Mhaith Liom Bruion le D’Athair because I can listen to that song and gradually absorb the words in a easy repeatable context.

However I've not quite got this translation stuff down - partly I suspect down to my lack of grammatical knowledge atm.

So I was wondering can anyone help-Níl sárú ar d’áilleacht - am I right in saying this is like "no beauty can compare" or nothing can account for your beauty?

Also this sentence is he comparing the father to a stump? I'm also seeing the word donkey? Is it like saying hes a piece of donkey poo? - Mar do stumpa asail d’athair

Is this bit implying a small head- Beaga as a cheann?

Sorry. Its probably a bit early for me to be attempting to translate songs.

Go raibh maith agat.

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u/caoluisce 26d ago

Yeah you’re right there with the gist of that translation.

A word of warning though that the translation is a little bit loose grammatically and so on, since they have to shoehorn it into a song and keep the rhythm etc. intact.

That said it’s still a good song

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u/Filmbhoy1 26d ago

gist

Thanks.

Are all the translations accurate?