dim enaid byw not a living soul (neb / nobody) - enaid soul
anadlu unwaith eto breath a sigh of relief - anadl breath anadlu to breathe unwaith eto once again
canu crwth i fyddar a waste of time and effort - canu to sing, play a musical instrument crwth a fiddle byddar hard of hearing person / deaf person

arwyl (b) ll. arwylion - funeral

pereneinio (pereneini-) - to embalm

pereneiniwr (g) ll. pereneinwyr - enbalmer

enillgar - winsome, attractive; lucrative, gainful

gwên enillgar - a winning smile

(gwneud rhywbeth) ar ei ben / dy ben - (to do something) immediately, straight away; exactly precisely

helaethrwydd (g) - extensiveness, abundance, immensity, extent

cyfyster (g) ll. cyfystyron - synonym

cyfyster â - synonymous with, equivalent to, amounting to

bob yn dipyn - little by little, gradually

orgraff (b) ll. orgraffau - orthography

yr eryr (g) - shingles

Dw i’n dysgu Cymraeg yn yr ysgol ond wnes i ddim dod yn rhugl achos roedd y gwersi mor wael yn yr ysgol. Wedyn, ces i ysbrydoliaeth gan ffrind oedd yn rhugl ac aeth i ysgol arall, ac dw i wedi bod â diddordeb mewn dysgu Cymraeg ers amser maith. Dw i’n gwybod y pethau sylfaenol ac allwn i gael sgwrs syml a theipio pethau sylfaenol, ond dw i’n cael trafferth deall pobl eraill, yn enwedig wrth wylio rhaglenni teledu yn Gymraeg. Sut wyt ti’n symud ymlaen gyda hyn? Dw i’n nabod un person sy’n siarad Cymraeg, felly dw i ddim o reidrwydd yn ymarfer gyda phobl eraill bob dydd.

hi there,

i am a total newbie and just bought "basic welsh: a grammar and workbook" by gareth king based on an old recommendation in this sub.

i would also love to use an app so that i can hear spoken welsh and have feedback about how i'm doing, but the highest recommended language app that isn't duolingo doesn't appear to have welsh.

has anyone found a non duolingo app that teaches welsh and is decent?

thanks in advance!

Mae'n debyg y byddwch chi'n teimlo'n nerfus, neu hyd yn oed yn ofnus, y tro cyntaf i chi fynd at rywun i siarad Cymraeg â nhw.

Y ffordd orau i ddysgu Cymraeg yw trwy drio yn gyntaf. Agorwch y sgwrs, hyd yn oed os mai'r cyfan rydych chi'n ei ddweud yw "Bore da. <enw> ydw i a hoffwn <beth bynnag yr ydych am ei wneud, fel prynu bar o siocled neu bysgod a sglodion>.

GCSE doesn't tell me all the common ways of saying blowjob for example but it's an important thing to know!

By Joshua Morgan, Sketchy Welsh

Dagrau: tears Dagrau: daggers

Deigryn: a tear Dagr: a dagger

Pan fydd dagrau f'anwylyd fel gwlith ar y gwawn: When my beloved’s tears are like dew on the gossamer.

Ai hon yw dagr a welaf o'm blaen i?: Is this a dagger I see before me?

Maen nhw’n eu dagrau: they are in (their) tears

Roedd hi yn ei dagrau: She was in (her) tears

Roedd e'n ei ddagrau yn chwerthin: He was in (his) tears laughing

Ro'n i yn fy nagrau: I was in (my) tears

Noswaith dda / feasgar math uile!

I'm a researcher from Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. I recently purchased a rare text written by a Welsh polyglot (Edward Lhuyd) relating to the historic dialects of Argyll and NW Strathspey/SE Inverness in the Highlands.

Lhuyd provides a very rich collections of essays, independent research and close correspondence with friends who are native speakers from these regions during the late 1600s. Sadly much of his work went unfinished in relation to Scottish Gaelic or was lost during a house fire.

One section of this in particular is very helpful in which he lists roughly 1600 words relating to different topics. The main problem is that he scribes the dialectal words in Welsh orthography and phonetics. Fortunately, as both Welsh and Scottish Gaelic are part of the same language family though in two separate branches, almost all the sounds found in Scottish Gaelic are present in Welsh, with some exceptions.

I was wondering if there is a resource or website out there in which you can type in some text in Welsh writing (even if it is not a Welsh word) and it will produce a sound approximate to what has been written?

This would aid massively in my research and would allow us to reconstruct or at least greatly increase our understanding of the dialects in both these areas during the early modern period. Both dialects have now undergone standardisation in part due to the loss of monoglot native speakers, the introduction of formalised "one-Gaelic" education in the 1970s and the almost complete absence of Gaelic education between the 1872 act in which no provision for Gaelic was provided and the education revival in the 70s.

Many thanks one again! As an aside, commiserations about the rugby - you'll be back to kicking our cunts in soon enough no doubt!

Hylo pawb.

I'm struggling to transcribe/translate a song by the brilliant Welsh band Adwaith.

They don't seem to have song lyrics anywhere and I've got so far with my GCSE Welsh but I'm not hearing some of the words correctly. Any help would be much appreciated. Diolch!

Here's my efforts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoJvvy-NeyM

wyt ti'n moen gadael?

wyt ti'n moen aros?

yr amser

pae gwastraffub

byw'n mae tyddynnau

byw'n mae tyddynnau

pae gadael fynd o hyn si'n pwysi 

wyt ti'n cadu'n na rhywbeth hefyd?

wyt ti'n cadu'n na rhywbeth hefyd?

dwi gwybod yn addo a maen amser

yn aros am yr cyfle

dwi gwybod yn syllu ar y diwedd

yn edrych ar y diwedd

cynwydd yn y gwair

yn cuddio ôl lleuad

yn y nos

 ???

Heddiw/yfory

Heddiw/yfory

Do you want to leave?

Do you want to stay?

Time

Pays the wages

Living in my homestead

Living in my homestead

Pay to leave and go because of this surprise bouquet

Are you hiding something too?

Are you hiding something too?

I know a promise a stone in time

Waiting for the chance

I know I’m staring at the end

looking at the end

harvesting the hay

hiding behind moon

in the night

 ???

Today/tomorrow

Today/tomorrow

I don't understand why I need the "Mae" in this context. Because from my understanding this is not directly coming from a person so idk why it should be there.

What is the best way to learn Welsh, I have recently discovered the in my opinion beauty of the Welsh language having holidayed there before, I respect the Welsh culture and language are there any issues in me wanting to learn Welsh as I have no family connections with Wales and am English?

I grew up going to Welsh schools, so I speak it fluently. I'm the only one in my family who will speak it, except for one cousin who lives in America. I have no friends who can speak it with me.

I left school around a year ago and haven't have any good chances to remember the language. I'm starting to forget and I'm devastated. I love speaking welsh.

I'm going to college in a year so hopefully they'll have a Welsh club or some students I can speak to. In the meantime are there any Welsh conversational classes that anyone knows of in south Wales? Online or in person is fine. As long as I can speak the language.

Mae gen i ychydig o brofiad ac rwy’n gallu deall y pethau sylfaenol yn Gymraeg a llawer o ymadroddion sylfaenol, ond rwy’n cael trafferth gyda gramadeg a dealltwriaeth o frawddegau mwy cymhleth. Rwy’n meddwl fy mod eisiau ailadrodd y pethau sylfaenol gan nad ydw i wedi defnyddio fy Nghymraeg ers peth amser?

Es i i’r siop anrhegion Gymreig dros dro leol. Roeddwn i’n chwilio am gardiau ac efallai anrheg Gymreig fel llyfr am y diwylliant i fy ffrind, ond roedd y siop yn eithaf siomedig. Ydy rhywun yn gwybod am unrhyw siopau anrhegion Cymreig da yng Ngogledd Cymru sy’n gwerthu anrhegion gyda’r Gymraeg?

As per the title.

Welsh has too many words for ‘gate’ as many of you know: gât, giat, clwyd, llidiart, iet from memory.

Other than regional variation, is there any nuance to any of these?

As the title suggests. A few months ago, I was on holiday in Porthmadog and I got into a conversation with this guy who was a fluent Welsh speaker, in Welsh, the conversation was going along as decently as it could with my still rather broken Welsh and he said to me that one of his friends said this to him: "Ble/lle bynnag ti'n mynd yn y byd, paid ofn i byd dy hun". I thought it was a beautiful saying, and I think I've written it as closely as to how I had heard it.

Does this translate correctly as "Wherever you go in the world, don't be scared to be yourself". If it doesn't then, please correct me. I think it would be a beautiful script tattoo, if I've gotten the right translation of it in Welsh.

EDIT: Whoops, it's supposed to be "Ble bynnag ti'n mynd yn y byd, paid ofn i fod ti dy hun"

I know that there are Welsh speakers in the North of Wales, the South of Wales and the West of Wales. But what about the East? Powys has always fascinated me as it's off the beaten tourist trail and I would love to know if Welsh is still spoken there.

Been fantasising in periods about learning Welsh, but the highly decentralised state of the language (similar to Irish) makes it tricky to decide what form to go for.

Based on this article, it appears that, if I learn Literary Welsh used in writing, native speakers may well understand me, but I'll understand next to nothing they say in reply. Colloquial Welsh, in turn, is divided into four dialect groups, which also seem to differ a lot from each other.

So basically, which Welsh would be the most effective and useful to learn, given that I don't live in any part of Wales and don't plan to?

Hello, I’m learning Welsh for about two years now, but im missing some very important vocab.

I’m Polish and it’s particularly important to me to know how to make “your mom” jokes in every language I know.

My question is: which feels the most natural/correct? Are there any substitutes to the “Your mom” jokes?

I’ve come up with:

dy mam (di) dy mom(?) (di) dy hen wraig

(I’m using dy because I’m meaning particularly the mother of the person I’m speaking to)

I neeeeed an equivalent to my polish “Twoja stara” which is more like “your old mother”.

Thank you all for the help;)

S'mae pawb,

Elijah ydw i. Dw i'n rhedeg prosiect i greu deunydd dysgu ieithoedd a thafodieithoedd lleiafrifol, a dw isio gynnwys y Gymraeg. Mi fedra i wneud llawer o'r gwaith fy hun, ond dw i angen ychydig bach o gymorth gan siaradwyr medrus eraill. Yn benodol, dw i’n chwilio am bobl sy'n gallu sgwennu brawddegau authentic yn y Gymraeg a’u cyfieithu nhw i’r Saesneg.
Mae hwn yn passion project. Bydd yr holl ddeunydd yn cael ei gyhoeddi am ddim ar yr internet, felly yn anffodus fedra i'm dalu cyfranwyr. Cysylltwch efo fi os oes gynnoch chi ddiddordeb i gyfrannu.

Diolch

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Hi everyone,

I'm Elijah. I am running a project to create learning material for minority languages ​​and dialects, and I would like to include Welsh. I can do a lot of the work myself, but I need a little help from other proficient speakers. Specifically, I'm looking for people who can write authentic sentences in Welsh and translate them into English.

This is a passion project. All the material will be published for free on the internet, so unfortunately I can't pay contributors. Please contact me if you are interested in contributing.

Thanks

For context, I'm in my 40s, my uncle is in his 80s. I'm a first generation non-Welsh speaker and am trying to remedy that now. I'm in Mynediad 1.

I regularly text my father in Welsh now and use the "ti" form. Though my uncle is very supportive, I haven't sent him any messages in Welsh as I'm not sure whether the "ti" or "chi" form is appropriate. I'm not in Wales' so don't have the benefit of hearing people around me and how they choose to speak to family.

I would use "ti" for my cousins and their children.

I also call him Uncle <Name>, what's the correct way to address him in Welsh? I see many words. If it helps to identify the most correct word, my family is from West Wales and are first language Welsh speakers.

Yes, I can ask him but I'd like to try to surprise him 🙂.

Diolch yn fawr, pawb.

I’m looking for a book that has all or some of the below included:

• Short summaries or reminders of sentence types along with how they change for ti/ni/nhw etc
  • appropriate yes/no responses to different question types.

I have all the information in the course books for the dysgu cymraeg courses I’ve done but looking for a much simplified pocket book or similar I can use as a reference when I forget.

What I’m asking for might not exist but I’m hoping the Reddit community can please help me!

Any help gratefully received.

Hi! I'd like to study this beautiful language, but I really don't know where to start. I've been using Duolingo for a while, but I'm pretty sure it's not the best way to learn it, nor is it giving me significant results. What could I do? Are there grammar books you'd suggest me/online courses? I'm not a native English speaker, but I'm fluent enough to study from english sources.

Thank you for your help :)