BBC - Catchphrase - Ysbyty Brynaber - Week22
Week 22 - Main grammatical points
There are two ways of asking How many?
Faint o
Faint o blant sy gyda chi? - How many children have you got?Faint o bobl oedd yn y gêm? - How many people were at the match? Faint o docynnau fyddwch chi'n brynu? - How many tickets will you be buying? Faint o geir weloch chi ? - How many cars did you see?
You will note that Faint o is followed each time by the plural form of the noun
Faint o blant - plant - plural of plentyn child/children Or Faint o geir - ceir - plural of car
To use this construction you must be sure of the plural forms of nouns
Sawl is the other form of the question - How many
Sawl brawd sy gyda chi Sawl tocyn fyddwch chi'n brynu
Sawl always takes the singular form of the verb
A little word that crops up often in conversation is rhy meaning too
Jenny says - Roedd hi'n rhy sâl i siarad hefo fi - She was too ill to talk to me.
Note that rhy is followed by the soft mutation
Rhy brysur Rhy fach Rhy gynnar Rhy dawel
Note that Ll and Rh do not mutate after rhy.
Rhy llawn - too full Rhy rhwydd - too easy
One note of caution
Too much is gormod - rhy gormod is a common mistake among Welsh learners
Dw i wedi bwyta gormod.
Note the pronoun that follows dianc - to escape is dianc rhag - to escape from
Does dim dianc rhag y ffliw yma There's no escaping from this flu
Does dim dianc rhagddo fe Theres no escaping from it
Here are some vocabulary and phrases: Ar wastad ei chefn - Flat out on her back Cyfansoddiad - constitution Gwneud fy ngorau glas - to do my very best Dim mwy, dim llai - no more, no less Cam mawr - a great wrong Gwneud iawn am - to make up for
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