How to Say You Liked Something in Irish, in the Past Tense

Fáilte ar ais welcome back , we're going to look at how you say you liked something. as Gaeilge, in Irish.

So rather than saying 'is maith liom', which means I like, we're going to look at how to say that in the past tense. We're also going to look at three different ways, so stay until the end so that you get all three, and then you can sound like a native speaker.

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Ach ar aghaidh linn, on we go. So

I liked it

'Thaitin sé liom'

[ha-hin shay lum] /h aːtʲɪnʲ ʃeː lʲɪm/

I liked that

'Thaitin sé sin liom'

[..shin] /sɪn/

I really liked that

'Thaitin sé sin go mór liom'

[..guh more] /ɡ oː moːr/

Now, pronunciation disclaimer, as it goes for all Irish and all videos. There are three different dialects in Irish and phrases and words are pronounced different across the dialects. You can type any phrase into abair.ie and you can hear it pronounced in each dialect.

For example in Ulster, you do hear this T, and it sounds more like hatching. However, in Munster and Connaught they tend not to pronounce the second 't'.

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