#gaeilgoiri

🇮🇪- favourite thing abt Irish

Probably just how much you can tell about the culture from the language. Irish is a gendered language, but it’s not like a lot of Romance languages where you can tell by the ending of a noun/adjective, even if you can sometimes. The language vocally sounds extremely fluid and flowy, and uses very flowery, poetic phrasing instead of simplistic phrasing (eg: go raibh maith agat, tá brón orm, dia dhuit directly translation to, may goodness be with you, the sorrow is on me, may god be with you, even when they’re used as thanks, sorry, and hi.)

For the most part, the same terms are used for men and women, nouns are the same, the only different thing is the definitive article.

In most gendered languages, male is the default (Eg: my friends in Spanish for a group containing 9 women and 1 man uses the masculine version of the word friend) but Irish doesn’t really work that way.