Diolch yn fawr.
I know that cynnau is also used to mean ‘light a fire’
You’ll also hear troi ymlaen / troi i ffwrdd.
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Is the difference between rhagor and mwy that although they both mean ‘more’ - rhagor only comes at the end of the sentence - AND also Rhagor can be used to mean “anymore” aswell
Dydy o ddim yn byw yma (‘unrhyw’) rhagor
Or is it much more nuanced?
Based on what I’m seeing in my dictionary, both rhagor and mwy can be placed within a sentence or at the end. Both can be used as quantity expressions with “o” - for example mwy o goffi or rhagor o goffi.
It looks, to me like the basic difference is that rhagor is almost always a quantity expression - such as “more coffee” or “more donuts” - while mwy has more varied meanings of “more.” Mwy can be used instead of the “-ach” ending to make a comparative - such as “more confident” or “more beautiful.” It can also be used as an adjective to mean “bigger” - as in “a bigger room” - stafell fwy.
The dictionary also comments that rhagor has the connotation of “extra” or “in addition.”
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Yes, all that is broadly true and you have summed it up well, sionned. The distinction is a bit fuzzier from time to time, however, because you DO sometimes hear rhagor in non-quantity senses, particularly in the sense of ‘any more’ - dan ni ddim yn eu gweld nhw rhagor ‘we don’t see them any more’.
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i have just spent all afternoon making Damson jam - but what would that be in Welsh ?
i have just spent all afternoon making Damson jam - but what would that be in Welsh ?
Blasus? 
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Indeed yum! My dictionary says that damsons are eirin duon and that jam is cyffaith (or jam) so probably something like cyffaith eirin duon?
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Thanks. I had found the damsons but only came up with Jam online instead of cyffaith. It does have a lovely taste but I forget from year to year the difficulty of dealing with all those stones!
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I’d expect to hear ‘jam eirin duon’ - can’t remember off-hand the last time I heard someone say cyffaith…
I love damsons, but those stones… Almost broke my hand blender making damson ice cream last year and missing a stone!
Now I’ll have to search the net to cope with what you’re talking about at all. “Stones???” Hmmm … this sounds interesting …
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Damsons are a bit like a small tart plum, dark in colour and so delicious! I feel like they’re quite a British fruit but not sure why. They grow on trees in hedgerows in parts of the country 
I still have a bottle of homemade damson gin leftover from last Christmas 
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@tatjana
Damsons are, I think, indigenous to Britain. Certainly they grow wild. They were wonderful during the war as a treat!! But they definitely need to be sweetened by cooking before eating!!
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It’s the seed. Also called a pit.
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Ah thank you for clearig unknown horizons for me.
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Hopefully this is a tiny question with a quick answer and not a can of worms. I have to go to work tomorrow: Mae’n rhaid i fi fynd i’r swyddfa yfory. How do I form the negative, as in “I don’t have to go to work tomorrow”?
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I do the Northern course and I’d say:
Does dim rhaid i mi fynd i’r swyddfa yfory.
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Doing south I’d probably switch from mi to fi all the rest all the same. (To be honest, I didn’t dare to post first because I’m the least relevant here to teach anybody anything Cymraeg related (if it isn’t really easy stuff).) 
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I am doing south, so “fi” sounds more familiar than “mi”. “Does dim” is the piece I was missing. Diolch, Brigitte a Tatjana!
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