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Happy New Year

Irish translation: bliain nua faoi mhaise dhuit (dhaoibh)!

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English term or phrase:	Happy New Year
Irish translation:	bliain nua faoi mhaise dhuit (dhaoibh)!
Entered by:	Sonia Pozzoni

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22:32 Dec 22, 2007

English to Irish translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Other / wish

English term or phrase: Happy New Year

Hello! Could you help me to translate this wish? I need to translate also 'and'. That is to say: and Happy New Year
Thank you!

Sonia Pozzoni KudoZ activity Questions: 131 (none open) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 122
Local time: 20:04

bliain nua faoi mhaise dhuit (dhaoibh)!

Explanation:
Irish dictionary

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Tomás de Bhaldraithe

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all from the dictionary and I'm not an Irish speaker ... but has to be right

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well I'm Irish and have a basic smattering but that's about it :)

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a verrry basic smattering ....

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and "agus" for "and"

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Change the "dhuit" to "dhaoibh" if you're addressing more than one person. Bliain nua faoi mhaise dhuit = Happy new year, to one person. ...
www.daltai.com/discus/messages/12465/11946.html?1070463989 - 31k - Cached - Similar pages

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maybe a fluent Irish speaker can confirm this :)

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Note added at 2 hrs (2007-12-23 00:41:21 GMT)
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CL 5 is based totally on the dictionary (which in this case I trust )

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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year Around the World ... Shona Dhuit Irish - Nollaig faoi shean agus faoi shonas duit agus bliain nua faoi mhaise dhuit! ...
www.langston.com/Fun_People/1998/1998AAB.html - 7k - Cached - Similar pages

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getting confirmatiion from a native Irish speaker on this one :)

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just confirmed by a native speaker so CL 5 ok :)