Cywir means not just "sincere" but also "correct".

Remember, adjectives mutate after yn. I know that keeping track of the mutations is baffling at first, but after a while they become second nature. If a term gives you "no matches", almost without thinking you search it again with a different initial consonant.


What do you mean by a "red underline"?


Sorry, don't know how I overlooked that: the verb should've been ydy, not mae. Mae can occasionally be used interrogatively, but it can't ever be a negative form[*].


[*] At least in Standard Welsh. Apparently some dialects allow it, but don't worry about that now.

So said Google as well. I assume that's more what you had in mind.

So that's what mutates after yn. Thanks for specifying it.

I actually did search for cywir as well as gywir, and it couldn't find anything for either one. Go figure.

I mean the red wiggly lines that spellcheckers put under words they don't like.

Thanks for clarifying.

Don't worry about that now?! I don't even know what dialect I've been using!

Nouns, too. Not verb-nouns, though. That's why it's "Dw i'n ddysgwr" ("I'm a learner") but "Dw i'n dysgu" ("I'm learning").


Check to see that "Nature of terms to search" is set to "Everything" and not limited by part of speech.


Do you have a Welsh spellchecker?


The differences are minor at this stage. The only bit you've been using which could really be identified as regional/dialectal is e for "he/him" (South) instead of o (North). I speak like a Southerner, but I've tried to avoid using specifically South Welsh forms (like yw for ydy, rw for dw, etc.)

Oh, okay.

Thanks. I just checked back there, and it was indeed set to "Nouns". When I set it to "Everything", it gave the actual definition of cywir.

Probably not, but even if I did I don't know how I'd get the computer to use that for online posts instead of the English one.

"This stage"?

I didn't know about that. Welsh with Ease doesn't mention o versus e -- it just gives e.

But you did use yw in one of your posts:

(And if I'm not mistaken, yw is some sort of contraction of the earlier ydyw.)
I also can't sort out when you use dw or rw. It seems that dw (or rw) is the spoken form of rydw, but dw can also replace dydw. This is what I've managed to infer from your posts and various web pages, but do I have it right?

The beginning stage. You have a vocabulary of, what, two dozen words? You haven't learned any of the terms (like "key" or "milk") that differ substantially between regions. There are also significant divergences in morphosyntax, but you haven't learned any of those tenses or constructions yet.


I said "I've tried", I didn't say I've been 100% successful! I'm sure in some cases I've used specifically Southern forms simply without even realising it because I simply never learned the corresponding Northern forms.


Let me make it easy for you: don't use rw. Yes, it's a spoken form of rydw (which nobody uses natively), but so is dw. Use dw consistently and you won't ever be wrong.

I haven't counted, but that sounds about right.

I haven't? Off the top of my head I can think of two widely differing terms: "milk" (llaeth/llefrith) and "table" (bwrdd/ford [please correct me if I have the wrong number of d's]). There's also "dog", for which you use cw and I use ci.

No, I don't believe I have.

Sure. That's okay.

I don't.

Would you like me to use it for both rydw and dydw, or just for rydw?

Right number of d's, but the citation form is bord.


Where do I use cw for "dog"?


It works for both. But for the interrogative form ydw is preferred.

Now let's try some sentences:

"Paid â rhoi llaeth i'r ci! Mae e wedi bwyta eisoes."
"Paid â gweiddi! Dw i ddim yn fyddar, nag ydw?"
"Lle mae'r ci wedi mynd nawr?"
"Mae e yna, dan y bwrdd."

(New verbs: bwyta "eat", gweiddi "shout", rhoi "give".)

Oh, whoops! I didn't realize Welsh with Ease gave the mutated form.


Somewhere on here.

You haven't told me what yn fyddar, eisoes and yna are, and I don't know offhand. The rest is fine.

That was sloppy of me. I must've been vacillating between the singular (ci) and the plural (cŵn), resulting in a form that was neither fish nor fowl.


But you have a dictionary at your disposal, and now you know how to make proper use of it.

Oh, I see. So cw isn't a word at all?

Exactly. Looking up random bits of Welsh dialogues isn't the sort of thing I should be doing late at night, but now is a fine time to go find those words.
*disappears for a few minutes*

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eisoes "already"
byddar "deaf"
yna (no matches -- please explain?)
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