“I didn’t do anything on Saturday”
I would have thought it is:
“Wnes i ddim byd ddydd sadwrn”
but the sentence used in one of the challenges is:
“Wnes i ddim gwneud unrhyw-beth ddydd sadwrn”
I would have thought the “gwneud” would be redundant as “wnes I ddim” already translates to “I didn’t do”? Also, I thought that Welsh people typically match polarity, i.e. “ddim byd” in a negative sentence instead of “unrhyw beth”?
I realise that the polarity question is probably personal preference amongst speakers but the “gwneud” seems incorrect - Or, is it a way of providing emphasis?
In a living language, there is usually more than one acceptable way to say the same thing. Strictly speaking you don’t need the second “do”, but it just follows from forming the preterite with the periphrastic “wnes i ”, and many speakers especially in the North even use this if the verb itself is gwneud.
dim byd is a phrase in itself, so with “Wnes i ddim byd ddydd sadwrn”, you’re actually saying “I did nothing on saturday”, because the dim here is part of dim byd, not part of wnes i ddim.
But having said that, “doing nothing” and “not doing anything” pretty much amounts to the same thing!
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