In this video we're going to take a piece of conversational text in the
Irish language and I'm going to go through it word by word and line by line so you
have a better understanding of what's being said, I'm going to read down through
it first and then go through it in a more detailed fashion and give it a final
read through then when your understanding should be a lot clearer. Let's start.
So I'm sure you understood some words and some phrases
of that text but let's have a detailed breakdown now of what I just read out
so the first bit Ciara Ní Shearcaigh is ainm dom = that just means Ciara Ní Shearcaigh
is my name is ainm dom means the name upon me, the do preposition is used there
and you know you can use Dom duit dó di etc as you can see on screen there
depending on if you're talking about him or her or me or you or whatever so
that's the first line there moving on then táim ocht mbliana déag d'aois
so that means I'm 18 years of age so táim is used there as a present tense of
the verb bí as in I am at this moment and then ocht mbliana déag d'aois means 18
years of age the déag there anytime you see déag it particularly refers to a teen or
putting teen on it, next bíonn mo bhreithlá ar an ochtú lá déag de mhí feabhra
so first of all you notice the use of the word bíonn there, bíonn, I just refered to
táim a couple of moments ago so táim is like it happens once I suppose in in a
way of once and once only like like you're only eighteen once but bíonn is
ongoing as in does be ongoing so your your, the line means my birthday is on
the 18th of February so that's kind of saying my birthday is ongoing and it does
be on every year hence use of the word bíonn, so mo bhreithlá - my birthday, ar an
ochtú lá déag de mhí feabhra, that means on the 18th day, de mhí feabhra the month of
February de mhí feabhra, Rugadh is our next word there so Rugadh is used to say that
you were born in the year so Rugadh mé sa bhliain naoi déag nócha ceathair, so I was
born in the year 1994 so rugadh is a handy phrase, you'd often hear the following
phrase Rugadh agus tógadh mé that means I was born and raised
so rugadh mé I was born, sa bhliain in the year naoi déag nócha ceathair in 1994
Tá cónaí orm i gCnoc Mhuire so that's saying I live in gCnoc Mhuire so again we have the
preposition there orm ort air uirthi to refer to me you him her etc that's just
saying you live in gCnoc Mhuire, sráidbhaile beag tuaithe - so that means a small
country village so sráidbhaile is a village and beag is small and tuaithe
means like in the country so sráidbhaile is village there it's like
like Street town like like a one Street town I suppose it literally translates
i lár chontae Mhaigh Eo - so that means in the middle of County Mayo, Mayo being a
County on the west coast of Ireland actually Mayo or Mhaigh Eo there
means the plain or the field of the yew trees that's where the county name gets its name from
so moving on - Tá seisear ar fad sa teaghlach againn
so that means there's six altogether in our family so seisear there not sé
seisear, I have made a video a video on counting people you may see a link pop
up on screen and I'll leave a link in the description as well in relation to
counting people so tá seisear ar fad, ar fad means
altogether sa teaghlach againn in our family so teaghlach is is family
mo thuismitheoirí san áireamh so that means my parents included so mo my,
thuismitheoirí parents san áireamh inclusive of them or including them taught true to for
tá triúr deirfiúr agam
agus táim féin i lár na clainne, so that means I have three
sisters and I myself am in the middle of the family so triúr, it's not
trí it's triúr because we're counting people so I've three sisters and me
myself táim féin, I myself i lár na clainne, in the middle of the family so the middle child.
réitím go maith le mo dheirfiúracha de ghnáth, so that means I get on
well with my sisters generally or ordinarily so réitím comes from the
Irish word or the Irish verb réitigh which means to prepare or to settle and it
works well in this context too, I get on well le mo dheirfiúracha, with my sister's
de ghnáth - normally, ach uaireanta but sometimes ach uaireanta
so uaireanta is a very convenient phrase you can throw in here and there, other
similar phrases ó am go ham - from time to time, anois is arís means now and again
and ó am go chéile again just means from time to time
but anyway, ach uaireanta but sometimes bímid ag argóint, we do be arguing, ag argóint -
arguing, faoi mhionrudaí that means about the small things are about trivial
things faoi mhionrudaí, ar nós éadaí agus an teilifís so that means like
clothes and the television, ar nós éadaí agus an teilifís, ar nós is similar
to or in the habit of, I remember when I was in school I used to regularly
use a phrase ar nós na gaoithe = like the wind or as fast as the wind, ar nós na gaoithe
so that last bit again, bímid ag argóint faoi mhionrudaí ar nós éadaí agus an teilifís
we do be arguing or bickering about
little things like clothes and television. So I'm sure you have a clearer
understanding of that piece of conversational text now I'm going to
read down through it now one more time
so you can have the full version now having
just explained so here goes-
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