Using amdani

Welsh General / Questions
#1

Using the app very happily and fairly well on with it now but suddenly amdani is used with no introduction at all and then not used again - help please

#2

It’s one of the “conjugated prepositions” that happen in Celtic languages (and also, oddly, Semitic). Words like “at” got fused with a following pronoun (at+me, at+thee, at+him, at+her, etc.) but, just as with verbs, some of them are a bit irregular.

Am - meaning, amongst other things, ‘about’ - has the slightly surprising combining form amdan- - so ‘about her’ is amdani (or amdani hi, but you don’t really need the hi); and ‘about him’ is amdano.

I don’t know what your context was, but Welsh usually uses ‘her’ (rather than ‘him’) in places where English would say ‘it’, so, for example, ‘I was thinking about it’ might be O’n i’n meddwl amdani.

If you listen to Radio Cymru you’ll sometimes hear people say amdan on its own, instead of am - which is ‘wrong’ / ‘bad’ Welsh, but it’s definitely something people do.

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#3

I have been using automagic since mid September, I downloaded and tried the app. I am thoroughly enjoying my learning and am very impressed with the course.

I have noticed occasionally that something new will spring up and panic me, I like things introduced calmly and quietly, no surprise birthday parties for me!

I decided that likely all would become clear. Invariably it sorts itself out, it seems like a glitch. More recently a word has been introduced like it’s something new, when I have been using it for ages, this doesn’t cause panic.

As there have been several incarnations of the course perhaps there are little glitches that occur along the way.

I am just so pleased that my brain keeps absorbing new stuff.

PS Amdani was one that freaked me out.

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