Oíche mhaith

Good night · Ee-heh wah

Oíche mhaith means Good night, and is said Ee-heh wah.

Word for word

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

How to say it

Say it Ee-heh wah, written the way an English speaker would read it.

When you’d say it

Said on parting at night, not as a greeting. Oíche is the same word that opens Oíche Shamhna, Halloween.

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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