Use of bod

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#1

Bore da. Can anyone explain please? …
In Challenge 25, new course, 11m29s, " I think that Id better go now" seems to be " dw i’n meddwl bod well i mi fynd rwan" … why the use of bod for that? Thanks in advance. Im trying to take all the input at face value, as if learning a mother tongue, withoyt dissecting it too much, but this has me puzzked.

#2

The bod is the ‘that’ - the word order in Welsh doesn’t exactly match the word order in English, so the Welsh is saying “I think that it’s better for me to go now”.

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#3

Thanks Siaron, is bod “to be”? Is that a different use of same word? Also same Challenge, 21m26s, “beth oedd e ti eisiau gwneud” … “what you wanted to do” … why the “e”, as its “you” , not “he”. Thanks

#4

Yes, bod also means ‘to be’, but is also a way of saying ‘that’ (the 'that’s are infamously confusing!).

What you’re hearing in the second bit is “beth oeddet ti eisiau gwneud” - the oedd has conjugated into oeddet for the ti form, so there is no ‘e’.

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#5

Thank you so much!

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#6

If you bent the English about a bit, you might come up with “I think it to be better for me…”

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#7

BTW Christine I corrected the typos in the title of this thread to help with future searches. I hope that’s OK.

#8

Thank you!

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