Ní maith liom do thrioblóid

I am sorry for your trouble · Nee moh lum duh HRUB-lohd

Ní maith liom do thrioblóid means I am sorry for your trouble, and is said Nee moh lum duh HRUB-lohd.

Word for word

Taken literally it reads Not good with me your trouble. Irish often puts a sentence together differently from English, so the literal reading rarely matches the meaning.

How to say it

Say it Nee moh lum duh HRUB-lohd, written the way an English speaker would read it.

When you’d say it

What is said at a wake or a funeral, to each of the family in turn. It is the phrase behind the English one Irish people use at a removal, sorry for your trouble, which sounds odd anywhere else and makes perfect sense here. To more than one person it is bhur dtrioblóid.

More like this

• Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam: May his soul be at God's right hand
• Go ndéana Dia trócaire air: May God have mercy on him
• Tá brón orm: I am sorry
• Ní bheidh a leithéid arís ann: His like will not be seen again

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