Slán abhaile

Safe home · Slawn ah-wal-yeh

Slán abhaile means Safe home, and is said Slawn ah-wal-yeh.

Word for word

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

How to say it

Say it Slawn ah-wal-yeh, written the way an English speaker would read it.

When you’d say it

Said to the person who is leaving, not the one staying. You will hear it at the end of a night anywhere in Ireland, in English as often as in Irish.

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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