Question - Course 2 Gwers 8 Southern

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I’m trying to understand what I am hearing in a couple of the sentences dealing with word order change due to emphasis. They are the ones where the “changed” part of the sentence ends with a pronoun (nhw). Is there an “yn” after “nhw” or not (i.e. is it “nhw” or “nhw’n”)?

For example (at about 21:33):

Looking upwards they were, not despairing entirely.

I think I hear: Dishgwl sha lan o’n nhw, nage anobeithio’n llwyr.

There’s another one like this at 23:30:

Throwing it away they were, not kicking it at the wall.

Ei daflu fe bant o’n nhw, nage ei gicio fe at y wal.

I think it sounds like “nhw” here, too. I’m guessing the “yn” goes missing when the word order changes in this way?

Diolch!

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This is correct! If the sentence ends in “nhw” and no other words follow, it just ends “nhw”.
“Nhw’n” is just a shortened version of “nhw yn…” where another word will usually follow the “yn” (if “yn” is required before the next word, that is).

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Thanks, Gav!

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