Is cyfarfod a verb?

[mikeellwood]

Yes - ‘…canu’n dda’ is going to have an auxiliary in front of it, because the 'adverb ‘yn dda’ means it’s a verb. So for example: Maen nhw’n canu’n dda ‘They sing well’ or ‘They are singing well’. But of course you can also have: Mae’r canu’n dda ‘The singing is good’ - where canu is the (verb-)noun, and the yn is there not to make an adverb but to link noun to adjective.

Diolch yn fawr unwaith eto Mr King. Slightly more complicated than I was thinking then.

It’s too late in the night for this, isn’t it? It’s in the grammar somewhere.

There are no plans to update the Intermediate Grammar and Workbook - it sells far fewer than the Basic, and therefore the publishers won’t do it.

Chwarae teg. Thanks for the information.

[sarapeacock]

I’ve often wished there was an English equivalent of these Welsh grammars that I could direct people to when they’re having problems with English grammar (the authors that I edit and the students to whom I teach proofreading), but I haven’t been able to find something that hits exactly the right level like these do.