{"id":10,"date":"2009-03-25T16:10:27","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T20:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/irish\/?p=10"},"modified":"2015-02-02T16:15:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T16:15:01","slug":"beannachtai-i-ngaeilge-a-do-%e2%80%93-or-how-to-greet-several-people-in-irish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/irish\/beannachtai-i-ngaeilge-a-do-%e2%80%93-or-how-to-greet-several-people-in-irish\/","title":{"rendered":"Beannachta\u00ed i nGaeilge a D\u00f3 \u2013 Or How to Greet Several People in Irish"},"content":{"rendered":"

(le\u00a0R\u00f3isl\u00edn)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Beannachta\u00ed i nGaeilge (Cuid a D\u00f3) \u2013 Or How to Greet Several People in Irish<\/strong><\/p>\n

As promised in a recent blog, here we\u2019ll look at the greetings used when you\u2019re talking to more than one person. Remember that Irish has two different ways to say \u201cyou,\u201d singular and plural. Therefore, phrases such as \u201cDia duit<\/strong>\u201d or \u201cGo mbeanna\u00ed Dia duit<\/strong>\u201d (God bless you) have plural forms as well. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The word \u201cduit<\/strong>\u201d changes to daoibh<\/strong> for the plural. So you\u2019d say \u201cDia daoibh<\/strong>\u201d or \u201cGo mbeanna\u00ed Dia daoibh<\/strong>.\u201d In dialects where people say \u201cdhuit<\/strong>\u201d instead of \u201cduit<\/strong>,\u201d such as Conamara, they\u2019ll use the form \u201cdhaoibh<\/strong>.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Here are some sample greetings, the first to greet one person and the second to greet several:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

a) Dia duit, a Aoife. <\/span><\/strong>Hello, Aoife.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

b) Dia daoibh, a Aoife agus a \u00dana. <\/span><\/strong>Hello, Aoife and \u00dana.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

a) Dia dhuit, a Sh\u00e9amais. <\/span><\/strong>Hello, James.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

b) Dia dhaoibh, a Sh\u00e9amais agus a She\u00e1in.<\/span><\/strong> Hello, James and John.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Greetings like hal\u00f3<\/strong> and haigh<\/strong> don\u2019t require any special forms for the plural!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

What about entering a house where there\u2019s a whole roomful of people to be greeted? In this case, it was traditional to say, \u201cDia isteach anseo<\/strong>\u201d or \u201cDia anseo isteach<\/strong>.\u201d Literally, this is simply \u201cGod in here\u201d or \u201cGod here in\u201d but the essential meaning is \u201cGod bless all here.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Sa ch\u00e9ad bhlag eile<\/span><\/strong> (in the next blog), we\u2019ll finally tackle how to answer the greeting. Unlike English, the second person traditionally doesn\u2019t simply echo what the first person has said (“Hi, Jim,” answered by “Hi, Mary”). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Bhur mblag\u00e1la\u00ed – R\u00f3isl\u00edn<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(le\u00a0R\u00f3isl\u00edn) Beannachta\u00ed i nGaeilge (Cuid a D\u00f3) \u2013 Or How to Greet Several People in Irish As promised in a recent blog, here we\u2019ll look at the greetings used when you\u2019re talking to more than one person. Remember that Irish has two different ways to say \u201cyou,\u201d singular and plural. Therefore, phrases such as \u201cDia…<\/p>\n

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