Slán

Goodbye · Slawn

Slán means Goodbye, and is said Slawn.

Word for word

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

How to say it

Say it Slawn, written the way an English speaker would read it.

When you’d say it

The one word everybody knows. It means safe or whole, so saying goodbye in Irish is really wishing somebody safety. The same word sits inside sláinte.

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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