How do I say "Hello" in Irish?

[philipkntz]

I was recently in Amsterdam and was amazed at how easily residents could switch from language to language and when someone asked me the above question, the best I could come up with was "Conas atá tu?"
I've studied Irish for 13 years, studied Peig, got a B in my leaving, but I cannot say hello in my own language.
We learned Dia duit, Dia s'Mhuire Duit and even Dia s'Mhuire duit s'Phadraig. But what was severely lacking in my education was some simple everyday conversation. We learned how to ask permission to use the toilet but not how ask where the feckin toilet was.
My schooling was in the 70's and 80's. Has there been any significant changes in how Irish is taught since.

[philipkntz]

Haigh = Hi or hello

Thanks, but isn't that just gailicized english?
The Irish must have had a way of greeting each other before Christianity educated them to speak properly.

[FranknStein]

Bail o Dhia ar an obair.
Cen chaoi in a bhfuil tu? (Connemara)
Cad e mar ata tu? (Donegal).
An bhfuil tu go maith?
La brea, nach ea?
La alainn
La maith....
Ta an aimsir go halainn, buiochas le Dia.
Beannachtai (na Caisce, na feile etc etc) oraibh go leir.
Cad e an sceal?
Failte romhat.
Conas ata cursai leat?
Trathnona maith daoibh go leir.
Trathnona maith daoibh ar fad.
Dia dhaoibh ar maidin.
Aon sceal?
Maidin mhaith.
Oiche mhaith.
Ta athas an domhain orm bualadh leat/libh.
Nach iontach an la e?
An bhfuil rudai go maith?
An bhfuil gach rud/cursai ag gluaiseacht go maith?
Aon rud nua?
Aon nuacht?
An bhfuil tu ag coimead go maith?
Athas mor orm bualadh leat.



Bron orm, nil fada ar bith agam.

[philipkntz]

Bail o Dhia ar an obair.
Cen chaoi in a bhfuil tu? (Connemara)
Cad e mar ata tu? (Donegal).
An bhfuil tu go maith?
La brea, nach ea?
La alainn
La maith....
Ta an aimsir go halainn, buiochas le Dia.
Beannachtai (na Caisce, na feile etc etc) oraibh go leir.
Cad e an sceal?
Failte romhat.
Conas ata cursai leat?
Trathnona maith daoibh go leir.
Trathnona maith daoibh ar fad.
Dia dhaoibh ar maidin.
Aon sceal?
Maidin mhaith.
Oiche mhaith.
Ta athas an domhain orm bualadh leat/libh.
Nach iontach an la e?
An bhfuil rudai go maith?
An bhfuil gach rud/cursai ag gluaiseacht go maith?
Aon rud nua?
Aon nuacht?
An bhfuil tu ag coimead go maith?
Athas mor orm bualadh leat.



Bron orm, nil fada ar bith agam.
G'raibh maith agat. Do fada, húsáid "Alt Gr".

[luvdaladies]

'what's the story bud" is a usual Dublin greet.
"what about ya" up north
"ye langer" in cork.

I think that's the country covered lol.

[CANALI]

Isn't Google only brilliant, some of us would be really lost without it..!!!

[FranknStein]

A lot of Irish including supposed Irish millionaires who sold their supposed business for millions don't seem able to make the most of their time in school even as regards learning the rudiments of their ancestral language.

[Deleteduser1]

Yes horse will do ok

[philipkntz]

https://www.irelandnorthwest.ie/Destinations/Donegal/Gaeltacht/

Nothing similar further south?

I know people who went and they were not allowed to speak English they came back well able to hold a conversation

I've never done a gaeltacht experience. But a few weeks there would probably have been more beneficial that 13 years of learning mostly aimsir chaite. Good for reading or story telling, but conversation involves mixing tenses. We spent long hours transcribing entire passages from one tense to another, but very little mixing of tenses, like one would do in conversation. And as i said we were never taught a simple hello. It was all "God be with you"

[Johnny9719]

Haigh is hi in Irish

[philipkntz]

Haigh is hi in Irish

I'm told elsewhere that Failte was more likely to have been used than Haigh in old Irish. Failte is a fine Irish word but I went through school believing that it only meant Welcome.
Haigh is just bastardised english imo.

[philipkntz]

Conas ta tu._.

It's rare that I thank your post goatee but yes, how did we miss that one?
Agas conas atá tú fresin?

[philipkntz]

People in Tipperary have a habit of greeting each other with the word "Well". I always found this strange, thinking are you psychic, I didn't ask how you were.
But what they are saying comes from the word Bhuel, pronounced Well. Both persons say well, often at the same time. Which I think means "Hows it going?" "Hows it hanging?" "How'd you get on?".

[darrenh]

Don't say slán to a Bulgarian, because it means elephant.

[curvyirishgirl katie]

Maith an fhearr.. Maiden maith QUOTE=FranknStein;2210096]Bail o Dhia ar an obair.
Cen chaoi in a bhfuil tu? (Connemara)
Cad e mar ata tu? (Donegal).
An bhfuil tu go maith?
La brea, nach ea?
La alainn
La maith....
Ta an aimsir go halainn, buiochas le Dia.
Beannachtai (na Caisce, na feile etc etc) oraibh go leir.
Cad e an sceal?
Failte romhat.
Conas ata cursai leat?
Trathnona maith daoibh go leir.
Trathnona maith daoibh ar fad.
Dia dhaoibh ar maidin.
Aon sceal?
Maidin mhaith.
Oiche mhaith.
Ta athas an domhain orm bualadh leat/libh.
Nach iontach an la e?
An bhfuil rudai go maith?
An bhfuil gach rud/cursai ag gluaiseacht go maith?
Aon rud nua?
Aon nuacht?
An bhfuil tu ag coimead go maith?
Athas mor orm bualadh leat.



Bron orm, nil fada ar bith agam.[/QUOTE]

[FinnMickC00L]

Sadly it seems this site supports suppression of the Irish language.
Continentals.
Hah.
Bet they're running hah through Google translate.
Hah.

[patrickpio]

Conas ta tu._. or else you could say “Dia Dhuit”

[philipkntz]

Conas ta tu._. or else you could say “Dia Dhuit”

Thanks, but you obviously didn't read my first post on this thread. We were not taught a simple "Hello" or "Hi" as gailge in school. In english class we were not taught to greet each other with "God be with you".
I recon that there is a word lost from our language, dropped by our religious educators.

[Litfa]

Well girl/boy

[Cindy Forever]

I was recently in Amsterdam and was amazed at how easily residents could switch from language to language and when someone asked me the above question, the best I could come up with was "Conas atá tu?"
I've studied Irish for 13 years, studied Peig, got a B in my leaving, but I cannot say hello in my own language.
We learned Dia duit, Dia s'Mhuire Duit and even Dia s'Mhuire duit s'Phadraig. But what was severely lacking in my education was some simple everyday conversation. We learned how to ask permission to use the toilet but not how ask where the feckin toilet was.
My schooling was in the 70's and 80's. Has there been any significant changes in how Irish is taught since.

Then you guys complain abouts escorts English lol

[DonCaso]

Finished up school four years ago. Honestly not much has changed. Same stuff over and over