Where have you seen that before?

I've seen blwyddyn wedi hyn for "the year after this", but never *blwyddyn wedi on its own like that. Wedi is a preposition, not an adjective. The way you say "next year" is blwyddyn nesa.


In informal contexts, yeah. Similarly, nesa, above, would be written nesaf in a newspaper article, but in a context like this, that seems a bit fussy.


Those are three possible ways of expressing this idea, yes. (There are many more besides, of course, just as with English.)


If you literally mean "wake up", the verb is deffro (N)/dihuno (S). But codi "get up" would be more common in this context.

If cynnar means "early", how would you make this into an adverb?

"For" can be tricky to translate. I think in this instance, I would go with i fynd i'r ysgol. Oherwydd ysgol "because of school" would also work.

http://babelstone.blogspot.ca/2006/08/welsh-double-d.html

No? That's funny.
But it means roughly "after", and I'm pretty sure you can say "the year after" (or something similar) in English and French. Is Welsh different then?
I see.

Right.
I had some kind of half-idea that 'f' wouldn't be dropped intervocalically or in liaison, but I guess I was wrong.
Yn gynnar, I suppose.


So I'd say something like:

That is, unless it's really godi'n gynnar.

The link provided leads to a reproduction of the original manuscript page. You can see there that the full phrase in context is "blwydyn wedy hyn̄y", i.e. blwyddyn wedi hynny "[the] year after that".

Why are you looking at articles on mediaeval Welsh for information about modern usage anyway?


After in English (and après in French) is both a preposition and an adverb. Wedi is, as far as I know, only a preposition. The word corresponding to "after" in the sense of "afterwards" would be wedyn[*].


Some people do speak that way, but then typically the f is shown attached to the following pronoun, e.g. Bydda fi.



Ydy. When yn is a link particle, then the y is dropped after a vowel. And pronouns are followed by soft mutation.

[*] Which I suspect might be in origin a contraction of wedi hyn "after this".

Oh, you're right.

I'm not. I was looking at those articles for information on medieval Welsh spelling. If I got any ideas about modern usage, then that's just a side effect.

I see.

As I thought. I didn't know that all pronouns did that, but it makes sense.

Actually, it's a bit more complicated than that (I know, tired of me saying that, aren't you?) but this works as a first approximation.

Rhaid i mi ffonio fy ffrind yn Nashville yfory. Dw i'n gweld ei golli e.

Nag ydw.

First approximation of what? I'm not sure what you're trying to show me exactly. I can see that ffonio is irregularly resisting mutation -- is that what your point was? Or did it sail over my head again?
(I also couldn't find any matches for golli at UWTSD, but GT translated the sentence using it as "I miss him".)

Oes tatw yn y llaeth?
(Feel free to correct any mistakes, but try to answer the question too. )

What I mean is "This is a rule that will cover something like 95+% of all cases and you can learn the remaining exceptions as you go along."


I wasn't particularly trying to demonstrate anything, I was just giving you another sentence to work with.


Did you try colli?


The usual plural of taten "potato" is tatws. (Tato in the South.) Tatw exists but it's nonstandard and rare.

Ateb: Mae llaeth yn y tatws ond does dim tatws yn y llaeth.

No, but I should have. I'll do it now:

I still don't see why you need gweld, but I guess that's my problem.
I seem to recall Welsh with Ease giving tatw, which is why I used it.

I see. (I'm afraid I can't think of an intelligent response to that in either language. Does dw i'n gweld work here, or is it better just to say dw i'n deall?)

Dw i'n gweld is more idiomatic.

Lle mae'r ci nawr?