Hi!
I have just finished challenge 16 (northern) and am confused as to why ‘I enjoyed it’ is ‘Wnes i ei fwynhau’ because it thought it was ‘o/fo’ so would have expected it to be ‘Wnes i fwynhau fo’. Could someone please explain when ‘ei’ should be used and when ‘o/fo’ should be used?
Thanks for your help!
In a sentence like this, where the object of the verbnoun is a pronoun (i.e. ‘it’ - the thing that was enjoyed), Welsh expresses this by using the corresponding possessive adjective (i.e. its/his/her), so enjoy(ing) it will literally be its enjoying.
Often you will get an ‘echoing’ of the pronoun in speech - wnes i ei fwynhau o/e - but not always, and the second one is frequently omitted in writing - wnes i ei fwynhau.
You will also hear what you expected - wnes i fwynhau o - which is more like the English pattern.
Whichever one of these you use you’d be understood, so don’t worry about it too much - just recognise it in its different forms for when someone else uses one you don’t use yourself!
Thank you very much - I understand a lot better now!
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