Hi there,
I am planning a tattoo to celebrate my graduation and my dedication to my path as an artist as well as my determination to experience and explore life through adventures. All help would be greatly appreciated!!

Would you please translate the following into irish gaelic for me? or old gaelic because I saw that was an option too and that would be neat.
Sincerely,
a girl who has only started learning gaelic and knows nothing of the grammer.


"I seek magic and experience as I forge my own adventures"

I'm going to take a stab at this to get the ball rolling (where is everybody today?), but this is a bit of a complex sentence, so do wait for more input:

Tá mé ag lorg draíochta agus taithí agus mé ag déanamh m'eachtraí féin

I'm sure there's a better way to express this, so please wait for more input.

Redwolf

P.S. As you mention that you're learning, I figured I should add a caution: When speaking of this language in English, it's best to refer to it as "Irish" rather than "Gaelic." While "Gaelic" isn't strictly wrong, when used by itself like that, it typically refers to the language of Scotland, not of Ireland (if you were to buy a "Gaelic-English dictionary," for example, the language you would have is Scottish Gaelic). Just a heads up, as you continue with your learning.

Thank you Redwolf for the translation and for the pointer. Hopefully someone can agree with your interpretation!

That looks good, but since the English word "forge" has in it something of the sense of creating something, perhaps it would be good to replace the verb déan with cruthaigh:

Tá mé ag lorg draíochta agus taithí agus mé ag cruthú m'eachtraí féin

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I'm not a native (or entirely fluent) speaker, so be sure to wait for confirmations/corrections, especially for tattoos.

I like that! I was trying to think of an alternative to "déanamh" this morning and drawing a blank.

For the OP: if you need to save space (or a bit of pain), you can shorten "agus" to "is" in either or both instances.

Please do wait for a few more to weigh in, though.

Redwolf

Thank you CaoimhinSF as well.

What about changing around the first part to: 'Tá draíocht agus taithí á lorg agam.....'?

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That would work too!





Just to throw in another option into the pot;

Tá draidheacht agus taithí de dhíth orm is mé ag treabhadh mo shlighe fhéin

draidheacht is the older spelling of draíocht
Slighe is the older spelling of slí

If you're going for the older spelling you might consider the Irish script (Cló Gaelach/ bunchló Ársa) as a font

Tá draiḋeaċt agus taiṫí de ḋíṫ orm is mé ag treaḃaḋ mo ṡliġe ḟéin

Cian

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That sounds better!

A Chionnfhaolach...isn't "de dhíth orm" more like "I need"?

Redwolf

De dhíth is mostly used for I need. yep, but it has different shades of meaning: require, need, to be without. But it also means "want":

(see the fifth example)

http://www.potafocal.com/Search.aspx?Te ... 3%ADth+orm

If people think its too ambiguous "Santaigh" desire can be used instead. Your one is perfect, just giving an alternative.

Santaím draidheacht agus taithí is mé ar mo shlighe fhéin

Cian

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