Please forgive the spelling that I’m sure is incorrect.
I’m on level 3 and have got confused about when to use ‘mae’ and when to use ‘tuddy’. I’m doing North Welsh. My South Welsh speaking colleague suggested that ‘tuddy’ is for negation eg ‘he doesn’t want to go’, and ‘mae’ is for non-negated sentences but isnt certain.
Can someone please enlighten me? Is my colleague right? Diolch.
“Mae” is positive, for example, “Mae hi isio mynd.” / “She wants to go.”
“Dydy” is negative, for example, “Dydy hi ddim isio mynd.” / “She doesn’t want to go.” (“Dydy” sounds like “duddy” English spelling)
Does that help?
As Margaret said above but just to add that some dialects do use tydy (pronounced tuddy) in place of dydy.
Thank you both of you for clarifying, lesson 7 made a lot more sense today!
Such a difference in the Welsh language here in West Wales. We say for a negative instead of Dydy in the North " ddon hi ddim isiau mynd’ - she doesn’t want to go.