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Unless the distribution of the phonetic realisations (allophones) is predictable, then I would say analyse them as separate phonemes. But if /o/ when stressed is always realised as [O], that makes perfect sense as an allophone.

wyt. A form without r is used in questions (as in ydw, ydy). Wyt means literally [you] are, whilst ydw means am. It makes no sense at all to answer 'am I paying' with 'yes I am'.

Run together.

Yes!

For a lot of these adjectives there's also a form with -ig calqued I guess on the English. Which one is more common depends on the verb. In this case I would say wedi'i ffrio but apparently ffriedig also exists.

seems fine to me, if marked

you're too kind. I wish I still had the time and the motivation to do conlanging. Maybe I will sometime soon!

There are some similar constructions with intransitive verbs where you don't need a pronoun (wedi marw 'dead'), but if the verb in question is transitive then yes, you need it.

Remember that ei goginio is also (historically at least) the way that you express 'cooking him'.

The 'i there is a pronoun, a contraction of ei 'his' (in this case). Literally, 'cooked meat' is translated into Welsh as 'meat (which is) after its cooking' or 'meat (which) has been cooked'.

Also, aeth and eith often don't coexist in the same dialect. A lot of southern dialects say eiff IIRC instead of eith. Also some people pronounce aeth /ɑ:θ/.

Can you do the organs of the human body in a foreign language? I took out a few that I thought were a bit tough to identify from this not so great drawing. http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a311/TheMaskedMan52/Human%20Body_zpsxi5q5kia.jpg 1: رئتين 2: ؟ 3: الكبدة 4: المصران الغليظ\السميك 5: المصران ...

Yes!

Yeah, this is a less synthetic version of the preterite construction. collodd X Y = na(e)th X golli Y. It literally means 'Aled did lose two pounds' but it doesn't have any different force from collodd (unlike 'Aled did lose two pounds' which is used differently to 'Aled lost two pounds').

dyolf

mate

that's basically the suggestion I gave several posts ago and the suggestion that TCCollins gave (or indeed, with a small variation, the suggestion I gave several posts before that)

Rw i'n gwrando arnat ti o hyd.

diolch init

The fact that you can even make the statement 'is derived from the numeral one' suggests that there is in fact a difference between the numeral one and an indefinite article, surely?

There is a difference between 'I see a problem' and 'I see one problem', though.

why does nobody pay attention to my posts in this thread

I mean come on I am actually a Welsh

that would sound weird, like saying 'I see one problem but not the problem'.

tbh dw i'n gweld problem ond dim y broblem is fine.

Probably something like gweld problem dw i, ond tydw i'm yn gweld y broblem.

This is not nice though.

jesus christ lord preserve us why on earth would you want to do that

hasn't welsh suffered enough??!

Pole, the wrote:I have a question: is Welsh a real language or was it just created by the Basque monks so Basque wouldn't look so weird?

welsh is so not weird by IE standards even

Yes. ble is a southern variant (from ba (pa) le ) and lle is a northern variant. I've rarely heard anyone from the north use ble . With regard to the choice of words, I agree with your tutor. Ger actually feels quite a strange word to me and I'm not really used to hearing it. Wrth can definitely be ...

nope

what is it you don't understand

'I am in his playing' means 'I am playing it [masc]', 'I am in his loving' means 'I love him'

The direct objects of verbnouns are treated as their possessors

I suspect that just being able to distinguish broad and slender in the first place will probably get you a 'gosh u have a good accent' response

Pel-droed is the Welsh 'native' calque taught in schools and used in the news. People do use it, but they also use ffytbol.

I think people have explained the verbnoun thing pretty well. You will probably have heard dw i'n caru ti or whatever they teach you down in the decadent south as """your""" dialectal variant (as if there are only two dialects, THE NORTH and THE SOUTH), which is also acceptable. But the older and 'm...