Tiny questions with quick answers - continuing thread

[siaronjames]

These threads might help you Victoria -

Another quick 'what's the origin' one, please!

‘Mae fy nhad i yn moyn rhywbeth i’w fwyta’ I cannot for the life of me work out where that rogue ‘w’ has come from to make i’w. Could one of you lovely clever people enlighten this very keen Welsh learner?! Thanks! Ben

Points of confusion on Level 1 Challenge 25

I noticed a few things in Challenge 25 that I’m not understanding, even after running through it a couple of times: When should you mutate penwythnos nesa to benwythnos nesa (in terms of the sentence structures used in this challenge)? One sentence response said, “Wela i chdi benwythnos nesa”, while another said, “Dw i ddim yn siwr os wela i chdi penwythnos nesa.” Mutating it in the first sentence makes sense to me, akin to how you mutate dydd to ddydd when saying you’re doing something on …

Level 1, Challenge 23 "Rhywbeth I'W fwyta"? Is that what I'm hearing?

My immediate response to the prompt of “something to eat” was “rhywbeth i fwyta,” but upon listening more closely to both voices, I’m distinctly hearing i’w, not i. My trusty Modern Welsh Dictionary notes i’w as being a contraction, but I can’t imagine how it fits in this instance, or why it’s not simply i. Any ideas?

Use of 'i'w'

yes, you’re absolutely right, it is. The reason it doesn’t seem to work for you is because the way it works doesn’t translate back into English without sounding odd. It’s like saying “I need something for its eating”, which of course we don’t say in English, but it’s correct in Welsh, and to simply use “i fwyta” here would indeed be wrong.