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>Well, I guess I'll take on the role of grammar police >then ;) > >>(1) "Tá grá agam" literally means "Love is at me." >>Something tells me this isn't quite right because "tá >>grá agam dhuit" which means love is at me for you >>suggests active rather than passive voice. > >True indeed - tá grá agam would rather mean "I >love..." and would sound incomplete... > >>(2) "Gráitear" is the present autonomous Irish which >>corresponds to the English passive voice. It means >>"is loved" or "are loved" or "am loved" depending on >>the person, he, she, it, you. we. etc. My problem is >>that I don't know how to indicate the first person >>singular. Let's say: >> >>"Gráitear mé" and wait for the 'authorities'; that is, >>the grammar police to come after us. > >Gráitear mé is grammatically correct. But the >autonomous form doesn't correspond exactly to the >English passive voice here, it's more like when the >French say "on" (on m'aime sounds a bit odd) or the >Germanic/Scandinavian "man" (man liebt mich/man elsker >mig/etc. also sounds odd)... >It's sort of a way of saying that the action described >(loving in this case) is being done by everyone, but >not anyone in particular - almost like using "one" in >English... saying "One loves me" sounds not only >strange but also quite arrogant. > >I must admit I'm not quite sure how to express the >same idea as is conveyed in the English phrase "I am >loved" either... but I would suggest either "Táthar do >mo ghrá", although that also sounds a bit arrogant, >since it still involves the passive voice... > >I think the best thing to do would be to completely >rephrase the whole thing and say something like "Tá >(na) daoine ann a bhfuil grá acu dom", literally >meaning There are people that love me... It kind of >ruins the simplicity and poignancy (is that a word?) >of 'I am loved', but I fear it might just be the only >way...
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