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[longdehua]

Sa i'n gallu siarad cymraeg
Wi'n ffili bwyta y brechdan

I think you lose the "yn" with ffaelu/ffili as well so it's just "Wi ffili bwyta'r frechdan"

[Iestyn]

Sa i'n gallu siarad cymraeg
Wi'n ffili bwyta y brechdan

I think you lose the "yn" with ffaelu/ffili as well so it's just "Wi ffili bwyta'r frechdan"

Just to add - there is no grammatical reason for losing the "yn" that I know of, anyway, it just seems to happen!

[Lostforwords]

Cwrs 2, gwers 10, approx 24' - hwntw:

When he couldn't remember, she was not looking upwards.
Pan oedd e ffili cofio . . .
In the above I hear ffili cofio . . . - but in other examples I often seem to hear yn ffili.
My hearing at fault (again) or is either correct and acceptable, and nothing to worry about?

Gareth King in Modern Welsh (332) does include the yn - but what does . . .

I think I mention when we introduce "ffili" that the yn disappears for no apparent reason. This is my experience, but as there is no grammatical reason for the disappearance, it could be dialect, or even personal choice. If you use the "yn" it's more correct than leaving it out, but I usually leave it out...

If that's clear as mud, welcome to my World of Welsh!

[RobertBruce]

Sa i'n gallu siarad cymraeg
Wi'n ffili bwyta y brechdan

I think you lose the "yn" with ffaelu/ffili as well so it's just "Wi ffili bwyta'r frechdan"

Just to add - there is no grammatical reason for losing the "yn" that I know of, anyway, it just seems to happen!

Seems to be some kind of natural, subconscious thing. I caught myself doing it, thought it was wrong, but then noticed that other people do it too. Did I do it because I'd subconsciously picked it up from others, or is there some deeper, meta-linguistic thing going on?

[longdehua]

What happens with methu? Do people use the "yn" there or not?

[DavidHT]

I'm (re-)listening with my headphones on in a quiet room. At 29 min 26 seconds, Cat said, "ddylet ti ddim prynu llaeth os na fydd amser gyda ti ei yfed e", Iestyn says something similar (although I think he says 'yw'), then I can hear Cat say in the background, "I said 'ei yfed e'" or something along those lines. It made me smile!

[jampy]

I was hoping that someone might have raised this question earlier, but maybe nobody else experienced my confusion.

The English expression was: "Being unable to remember is not useful"
The Welsh is given as: "So ffili cofio'n ddefnyddiol"

My brain struggled with this, even intruding into my sleep. Finally, I reasoned that the way to unravel the Welsh was to construct the English as: " Is not failing to remember useful" = "It's not useful failing to remember"

Have I made this more difficult than necessary? Have I missed something simpler?

[Aran]

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