Slán go fóill

Goodbye for now · Slawn guh fohl

Slán go fóill means Goodbye for now, and is said Slawn guh fohl.

Word for word

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

How to say it

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

When you’d say it

The goodbye that expects to see you again, and the usual way to end a radio programme or a letter.

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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