"Tá an fear sa chuisneoir."
Translation:The man is in the fridge.
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You Irish are a beautiful people with a beautiful language, and a grand sense of humor.
Glad you're so understanding. Do you actually say stuff like cheese-eating turtles?
While not particular to Ireland (and actually I don't know of any specific cases in Ireland) getting locked inside of an abandoned refrigerator was shockingly common when they used latches instead of the modern seal mechanism. More kids than men, though.
There was a grim case in my county in Ireland of a murdered man being kept in a shop fridge... :|
Sea, Tá an chuisneoir seo i nGaillimhe; tá Bácús ann anios (gabh mo leath sceal ar mo Gaeilge bríste)
It's also rather deadly, to my knowledge. Have you never heard of hypothermia?
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Hahaha, in Hiberno-English, 'deadly' is synonymous with the US-English 'cool', or 'fun', or in HIberno-English, 'great craic', so I had to read your comment a few times to understand what you meant by that!
Though I've never tried hanging out inside a fridge, so maybe it is great craic after all!
Interesting...Aboriginal Australians use 'deadly' in the same way. It must have been kept alive in their culture after colonisation but died out as a usage in white Australian culture.
I absolutely agree. I'm moving my bed into the fridge, along with all my belongings. I'll let you know how it goes.
Grammatically correct but stupid sentences makes you maintain focus. Just sayin'. :)
I'm from Louisiana, and people are in the fridge down here. I'll yell at my kids to, "Get out of the fridge!", meaning "quit standing there with the door open because you're letting all the cold out." I've even complained about them "being in the fridge all day" during the summer.
I know most people think this is just a funny sentence, but maybe someone should run a background check on the guy that wrote this or something.
If too many sentences were easy to guess without really knowing the language, you wouldn't really be learning anything. A combination of that and unusual sentence choices will help you learn better.
Yay for the questions course. I can now /finally/ ask "Cén fáth a bhfuil an (tá?) fear sa chuisneoir?!"
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Deirtear "tá ocras an domhain air". "... an domhain = of the world (lit.) ~ extremely/ 'sooo'/ immensely/ really etc."
I started teaching myself 4 months ago. I don't know anyone that speaks Irish. So I need all the feedback I can get. Go raibh maith agat.
níl an fear sasta mar tá an cuisneoir an-beag! chomh maith leis sin, tá an cuisneoir plódaithe le rudaí.
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B’fhéidir toisc go bhfuil a lán Protastúnaigh taobh amuigh? Protastúnaigh ní agóideoirí.
Haha! Apparently I'm not the only one who came to comments just to see why men are in refrigerators!
That was my first thought, but you are the first to say it. I give you lingots
Is there a reason why "there is a man in the fridge" won't work here? I thought "tá" was "there is" and then you add the person (ie. "agam") to create the verb "to have." Have I just made up my own grammar?
I think this may be the hardest part of Irish for me! My brain wants "an" to be "a". Sigh. Must be more diligent!
If it helps, the Irish an is pronounced more like the 'un' in English unfair
After reading this, I think this might be what they say when someone is standing there with the door open, pondering the plethora of choices before them, being indecisive about what they should eat. I don't think it's literally a person physically occupying the same space, but rather an expression. I hear this in English a lot too. My friends tell their kids "get out of the fridge!" constantly. But they aren't literally IN the fridge, they're looking inside for food.
It's not literal. It would not be correct to say "Tá an fear sa chuisneoir" unless he physically was.
Duolingo courses are full of weird sentences to help you learn.
What is the difference between "sa" and "san"? In the tips & notes, it says "Lenition occurs after the words ... sa/san in the". I think I am confused because comments on other sentences mentioned that "den" means "of/off the" because it is de (of/off) + an (the). I guess, following that, I was just expecting sa to mean "in" and san to be "in the", but it looks like both sa and san mean "in the"? Is it a singular/plural thing?
Sa and san both mean in the. San is only used where the next word begins with a vowel or with fh-; for example, san fharraige in the sea.
I have heard something Similar "are you in the fridge again" meaning someone is standing with door open looking for something to eat
Did you meant to say "I know this man"
In that case,
Tá aithne agam air / I know him
or
Tá aithne agam ar an bhfear seo / I know this man
are appropriate way to express it.
Fios isn't used in that way.
Tá an fear sa chuisneoir agus é in eineacht leis a bhean atá sa chuisneoir freisin. Tá peitseoga acu. Nuair a dúirt a gcairde leo "Tár anuas don dhinnéar", níor cheapann said go mbeadh siad féin ar an mbiachlár!!!
Go hiontach. Ach tá cúpla botún ann.
"lena bhean" nó "leis an mbean"
"níor cheap siad" nó "ní cheapann siad"
"don dinnéar" (DeNTaLS-DoTS)
Tá fadhb nó dhó le do chuid síntí fada, freisin -"péitseoga", "tar"
"sa chuisneoir" means in or "inside the fridge".
"ar an chuisneoir" would be "on the fridge".
Oh, right. Still getting the hang of it! But otherwise both "sa chuisneoir" and "i gcuisneoir" would have the same meaning?
So this is the first time I've encountered "sa." Am I reading right that it means "in" as well as "in the" so you need to use context to determine whether the definite article is called for in translation?
do both sa and san mean 'in "the" fridge'. By the way , how do you know when a noun is male or female? have I missed something?
Yes, they both mean "in the", but sa is used when the next noun begins with a consonant, san is used when the next noun starts with a vowel. (That's to ease pronunciation)
You can look them up in a dictionary and memorize them, or go by instinct. The gender matter in Irish isn't as intense as it is in French, so I think it possible to proceed without memorizing noun genders, or thinking about them.
an fear means "the man", not "a man".
Tá fear sa chuisneoir - "There is a man in the fridge"
Tá an fear sa chuisneoir - "The man is in the fridge"
Why does the addition of a definite article cause the English sentence to change so much? English is just weird that way, and "a man is in the fridge" just doesn't feel right in most cases, and "There is the man in the fridge" means something else altogether.
Would "Tá an fear i an chuisneoir/cuisneoir" work? (I haven't gotten too far into lenitions so idk whether to add h or not :v)
Guess he took the lockdown toooo seriously..... but he won't be hungry with all the peaches and sweets⛄
Was this sentence made before or after Boris Johnson's fridge hiding moment?
Has anyone heard of the man who hitchhiked around lreland with a small fridge?
The man who is in the fridge, I can't help but pity for the milk which is spoiling outside. That man should get out. Fast.
