Doctor CymraegOnce you get past the humour in this, there’s an important message about putting adjectives AFTER nouns in Welsh 👍
Graham Skeats #FBPPR🏴🇺🇦@DoctorCymraeg Unless it's hen.
@GrahamSkeats There are a few adjectives that can come before nouns. They include:
• ail = re-
• prif(-) = main
• gwaeth* = worse
• gwell* = better
• gwahanol* = different
They all cause soft mutations.
* = can come before or after
• ail = re-
• prif(-) = main
• gwaeth* = worse
• gwell* = better
• gwahanol* = different
They all cause soft mutations.
* = can come before or after
@DoctorCymraeg Diolch! Gotta love an exception to a rule.
Ariaflame@DoctorCymraeg @GrahamSkeats Is mutation like the lenition that scottish gaelic has? (There, depending on the following letter, an h is put after the consonant affecting the sound). It also usually has the adjective after noun though has exceptions. The only one I remember at the moment is seann (old)
@ariaflame @DoctorCymraeg I'm afraid, as nothing more than an expat Cymro that's trying to revive his schoolboy Cymraeg, that I have to leave this to the good Doctor. Whose reply will interest me too. I was under the impression that all modern Celtic languages mutated initial letters to some extent.
@GrahamSkeats @DoctorCymraeg SG does have mutation as well, which is a bit like lenition, but in specific circumstances involving particular verbs.
John Young@DoctorCymraeg
I checked out translation for High Court, following yesterday's judgement. Anyway it turns out that uchel and Isel plus derivatives can't seem to decide if they come before or after the main noun.
I checked out translation for High Court, following yesterday's judgement. Anyway it turns out that uchel and Isel plus derivatives can't seem to decide if they come before or after the main noun.
KnockJohn@DoctorCymraeg Except after "hen" - "Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau" - "Yr Hen Ogledd" ...