Translation from Gaelic

[Mark Vandenbroeck]

Hi,

I know this is off-topic, but I tried soc.culture.irish with no success.
Sorry.

Someone wrote me a few Gaelic words recently and I have no idea what
they mean. Could someone please translate this to me ?

ta alan gra agam freit

I am not sure about the spelling, because the handwriting was hard to
decipher.

Thanks a lot.

Mark

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[Craig Cockburn]

Ann an sgriobhainn <345466...@nospam.be.oracle.com>, sgriobh Mark
Vandenbroeck <mvan...@nospam.be.oracle.com>

>Hi,
>
>I know this is off-topic, but I tried soc.culture.irish with no success.
>Sorry.
>
>Someone wrote me a few Gaelic words recently and I have no idea what
>they mean. Could someone please translate this to me ?
>
> ta alan gra agam freit
>

it might be ta/ alainn gra/ agam freisin - although I'm not sure if this
is sensible, could you check if it could be this.

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[Suki O'Raghallaigh]

Mark,

> Could someone please translate this to me ?
>
> ta alan gra agam freit

Assuming this is Irish and not Scots Gaelic:

Could be ta' a la'n gra' agam ? Where ' represents a fada over the previous
letter. This would be an attempt at "I have a lot of love for ?".
Something is missing though: there should be a 'do' before the "freit". I
bet the freit is actually "dhuit" (also used as "duit") a prepositional
pronoun that incorporates the do (for) and tu (you) as in:

Ta' gra' agam duit = I have love for you

"A la'n" is not entirely appropriate either. A better way of putting it
(and this is how my husband and I say it) might be to use mo'r which means
big -- I think this is more a slang usage:

Ta' gra' mo'r agam duit

Basically, I think someone is telling you they love you a lot? Of course if
the writing is truly indecipherable, they could be telling you that their
pet parrot fred lives in the garage...

If the intended message was the former, a nice reply would be:
"Ta' gra' mo'r agam duitse freisin", which basically means "me too"!

All the best,

Suki

[Tommaneymj]

.>Someone wrote me a few Gaelic words recently and I have no idea what
>they mean. Could someone please translate this to me ?

>
> ta alan gra agam freit
>

>I am not sure about the spelling, because the handwriting was hard to
>decipher.
>
>

They might have been saying "Tá grá agam leat" ... there is love by me with you