BBC - Catchphrase - Ysbyty Brynaber - Week 91 Week 91 - Main grammatical points Look at the sentence: Mi fyddaf i'n galw i'w weld o The form byddaf i looks like the future tense, but it is in fact also used for a habitual action. This means that you use it when you do something regularly, or as a habit, hence habitual. This aspect of the tense doesn't exist in English - we just use the present instead. It's OK to use the present tense in Welsh too, but it's good to recognise the habitual. Here are some examples of its use: I swim every Wednesday = Mi fyddaf i'n nofio bob dydd Mercher But I'm swimming = Dw i'n nofio Chris of course has been arrested for assaulting a policewoman, so look out this week for a lot of courtroom language. Here are some common terms you will hear: arestio = to arrest carchar = a prison achos llys = a court case cyhuddo = to accuse euog = guilty di-euog = not guilty cyfreithiwr = a solicitor cyfreithwraig = a woman solicitor 'Cystal' is a word that we use to mean 'as good' - but you can also say 'mor dda'. Wnaeth Prys chwarae'n dda iawn ddoe, ond dydy e ddim cystal heddiw. Prys played very well yesterday, but he's not as good today. We think of the word 'peth' as meaning 'thing'. But it can also be used to mean 'some' or 'something'. 'Dw i'n mynd allan i nôl peth' doesn't mean 'I'm going out to get a thing'. But 'I'm going out to get some'. And: 'Mae peth ar ôl' means 'there's some left' |