Tá sé ag cur báistí
It is raining · Taw shay egg kur baws-tee
Tá sé ag cur báistí means It is raining, and is said Taw shay egg kur baws-tee.
Word for word
Taken literally it reads It is putting rain. Irish often puts a sentence together differently from English, so the literal reading rarely matches the meaning.
How to say it
Say it Taw shay egg kur baws-tee, written the way an English speaker would read it.
When you’d say it
A sentence worth having in Ireland. In Munster you will hear ag cur fearthainne for the same thing.
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