A chuisle mo chroí

Pulse of my heart · Ah khwish-leh muh khree

A chuisle mo chroí means Pulse of my heart, and is said Ah khwish-leh muh khree.

Word for word

Taken literally it reads O pulse of my heart. Irish often puts a sentence together differently from English, so the literal reading rarely matches the meaning.

How to say it

Say it Ah khwish-leh muh khree, written the way an English speaker would read it.

When you’d say it

About as far as Irish goes in telling somebody what they mean to you, and it turns up all through the songs and the laments.

More like this

• Tá grá agam duit: I love you
• Mo ghrá thú: You are my love
• A stór: My darling
• A chuisle: My pulse
• A mhuirnín: My darling
• A leanbh: My child

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