Fáilte

Welcome · Fawl-cheh

Fáilte means Welcome, and is said Fawl-cheh.

Word for word

Taken literally it reads Welcome. Irish often puts a sentence together differently from English, so the literal reading rarely matches the meaning.

How to say it

Say it Fawl-cheh, written the way an English speaker would read it.

When you’d say it

The word on every door and road sign in the country. Fáilte romhat is welcome to you, and it doubles as the reply to go raibh maith agat.

More like this

• Dia duit: Hello
• Dia is Muire duit: Hello (in reply)
• Conas atá tú?: How are you?
• Tá mé go maith: I am well
• Go raibh maith agat: Thank you
• Le do thoil: Please

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