Maidin mhaith

Good morning · Mah-jin wah

Maidin mhaith means Good morning, and is said Mah-jin wah.

Word for word

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

How to say it

Say it Mah-jin wah, written the way an English speaker would read it.

When you’d say it

The adjective follows the noun in Irish, and maith softens to mhaith after a feminine noun, which is why it is said wah rather than moh.

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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