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BBC - Catchphrase - Ysbyty Brynaber - Week 11
Week 11 - Main grammatical points
Tags
Have you noticed some of the tags used by the characters? Tags are phrases like 'you know... you see' said usually at the end of clauses or sentences.
'Dyna beth o'dd yn achosi'r gwres uchel, t'wel' - that's what was causing the high temperature, you see.
T'wel' - ti'n gweld - you see.
You might also hear 'Ch'wel' - 'Chi'n gweld'
These tags can also be used as means of confirming a statement, e.g. It's raining, isn't it?
In Welsh 'isnt it' is translated on'd ydy or o'nd ydy hi which is sometimes abbreviated in North Wales to tydy
Mae'n bwrw glaw tydi
These tags obviously depend on verb tense and person e.g.
Rydw i'n dwp on'd ydw i
Rwyt ti'n hwyr, on'd wyt
Maen nhw'n dost, on'd ydyn
Rydych chin perthyn on'd ydych
Roeddet tin meddwl on'd oeddet ti
Yntê
Emphatic sentences are followed by yntê in all tenses
Ti oedd yn gyrru yntê
Ti dorrodd y cwpan yntê
Ar
We have already looked at the prepositions 'o' and wrth and see how they change when used with a pronoun.
'Ar' meaning 'on' is another preposition which changes with every pronoun. Here's the pattern in full:
arna i
arnat ti
arno fe/fo
arni hi
arnon ni
arnoch chi
arnyn nhw
Gwahodd
Agnes invites Jenny for supper. To invite - 'gwahodd'. In spoken Welsh 'gwahodd' is often pronounced 'gwadd':
Agnes - 'Wy wedi gwadd Jenny Saunders i swper'
To invite - gwahodd/gwadd
Invitation - gwahoddiad
Useful Expressions when discussing hospital matters:
Llwyd - grey/pale
Gwan - weak
Gwres - temperature
Dioddef - to suffer
Niwed - damage
Asgwrn - bone
Canlyniadau - results
Eli - ointment, salve
Holliach - completely healthy
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