We were watching a program on S4C using two laptops so that we could read the English and Welsh subtitles at the same time.
Y tristwch bod cymaint o adeiladau wedi 'u colli.
The sadness that so many buildings in Merthyr have been lost.
Can anyone explain the phrase:
wedi 'u colli
To me “wedi colli” means “have lost”. Does “wedi 'u colli” mean “have been lost”. Or is it just a typing error by S4C. 
The 'u is an abbreviated eu - their.
Wedi’u colli doesn’t translate very well directly into English. You have to bend the English slightly to get a fit. Think of it as had their losing or after their losing and you’ll be quite close.
Oh fab. I wondered if it was the possessive. A bit like the buildings got their losing. Minor win. Time to go out and celebrate. I love it when I feel I’m getting somewhere.
I would have answered that before Rob if Catrin hadn’t decided to throw all her carefully cultivated blackberry mead all over the kitchen…
I’ll find another obscure question soon I’m sure. 
If it leads to another explosion of glass and mead, we’ll start to wonder if there’s a connection…
…there’s a good echo in here @aran @CatrinLliarJones -otherwise I might not have noticed someone said mead? Is this a good time to point out that we might be traveling over the pond next year?
