Please reassure me that Welsh grammar can be like English grammar without being "bad Welsh"

[philipnewton]

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Also, as I understand it there, you can have Y fynnav leverel ger “I want to say a word” with mynnav “want” taking leverel ger “say a word” as a kind of object, but not an pyth a vynnav leverel – if an pyth is in front, then that’s already the object of mynnav and then you can’t add leverel directly afterwards but it would have to become y leverel “say it” or dhe leverel “to say [with preposition to]” (corresponding to something like ei ddweud and i ddweud respectively, I think).

Replying to myself – I had just found this post:

Middle Welsh

which addresses this bit, saying that something like “be dych chi’n weld?” is the colloquial form for something like “beth yr ydych chi’n weld?”, which itself is more colloquial than something like “Pa beth yr ydych chwi yn ei weled?”.

It reassures me to see the “ei” in there which matches what I had learned in Cornish It’s just been “optimised out” in spoken Welsh, apparently, possibly leaving behind a soft mutation.