Diolch.

Dan y bwrdd, nag ydy?

I don't understand why milk would be in the potatoes. Unless they're mashed potatoes. Anyone know how to say mashed potatoes in Welsh?

Hwyl fawr

Me neither.
I don't know offhand and didn't feel like digging through Welsh with Ease, so I tried looking around here and didn't find much of anything conclusive:
None of that really tells us what "mashed potatoes" would be. I'm not going to use Google Translate because we all know how awful it is, so that option's out.

Dw i ddim yn ei weld 'na. Ydy e dan y gwely, efallai?


It varies a lot by region. Possibilities include tatws stwns or tatws mwtrin in the North, tatws stwmp in central Wales and tato potsh in South.

Llith is the kind of mash fed to livestock.

What do you put in your tatws stwns? Besides llaeth, I add ymenyn and sometimes hufen sur, but I go very easy on the halen. Some people add cabetsh, but I prefer corwinwyn.

Dydw i ddim yn ei weld dan y gwely.

Dw i'n gweld.

Oes dim "fy nhatws stwns". (Is that wrong?) If I had hypothetical mashed potatoes, I would probably put halen on them. That's what I do with the regular kind.

UWTSD couldn't find matches for either of the words you referenced. They're obviously not mutated or part of a phrase, so we can rule that out. The first word looks to be "cabbage", but I can't be certain. Please clarify this.

Mae hi'n dywyll iawn dan y gwely. Defnyddia'r tortsh 'ma.


Beth wyt ti'n ceisio dweud?


Looks like the UWTSD dictionary prefers the form cabetsen. They don't list corwinwyn, which means "chives".

Sorry, but I'm afraid neither I nor UWTSD understood that. I think I'll have to switch into English. I can't guess what dywyll iawn or defnyddia'r tortsh might be, and I'm now confused as to who we're talking about. You've been referencing the dog as "he", but in the above post you're referring to an unknown "she" and that has me stumped.

Now that I think about it, I'm not sure what I said works in either language. I meant something to the effect of "there are no 'my mashed potatoes'" or "I never have/eat mashed potatoes".

Thanks for explaining.

Welsh has no "it", so when there's need for a dummy subject, it uses hi.

You don't need to guess what tywyll iawn means, you can simply look it up.

Defnyddia is defnyddio with the imperative ending -a. As for tortsh, say it aloud and the meaning should be obvious.


Yeah, that's a pretty awkward phrasing.

"I never eat mashed potatoes" = Dw i byth yn bwyta tatws stwns.

Wyt ti ddim yn hoffi tatws stwns? Pam? Beth sydd o'i le arnyn nhw?

Oh, yeah. I would probably have figured this out if I'd managed to figure out the rest of the sentence, but thanks for pointing it up.

I did, but I made the mistake of looking up the mutated form. We all know where that gets you.

"Torch", I assume. You're sure that's a Welsh word? But in any case, my main complaint is that the bed might, you know, mynd ar y tân. (Edit: That is, unless you didn't mean "torch" when you said "torch". I hear that it can also mean "flashlight", which is a much more sensible thing to use here.)

That works? It looks like it should mean "I ever eat mashed potatoes", but I guess nobody would say that.

Dydw i ddim wedi dweud yr yna. (If that didn't make sense, I meant "I haven't said that [I don't like mashed potatoes]".)

<what is...> (I think) -- and then I can't parse the remainder. This didn't really elucidate anything:
Sorry, I guess I just don't get it.

The Welsh word for "torch" in the sense of "burning stick" is ffaglen. The UWTSD dictionary doesn't give a translation for "torch" in the sense of "flashlight", but the BBC Welsh dictionary does.


It works just like French, n'est pas?


You can't say *yr yna. The word for "that" in reference to something abstract (like a clause) is hynny.


o'i le "from his (ei) place", i.e. "wrong"