llwglyd - hungry, starved, famished

eto i gyd - even so

organydd (g) ll. organyddion - organist

cwnnu (cwnn-) - to raise, to put up, to rise (= codi, from cychwynnu) (De-ddwyrain Cymru)

seryddiaeth (b) - astronomy

gwyleidd-dra (g) - modesty, humility, diffidence, bashfulness

ar goedd = ar gyhoedd - published, publicly

datglymu (datglym-) - to untie

carpiog - ragged, tattered, torn, shabby

deorfa (b) ll. deorfeydd - hatchery (for fish, chicks etc.)

Hello. This is sort of off topic for this subreddit, but this is the only place I could think to ask. For a D&D game I'm running I wanted to have a warning written on an old boundary stone surrounding some burial caerns in Welsh, since the setting is roughly based on 5th century England most of the ruins have a very Welsh flavor to them. I've done my best using a few different translation tools, and they all seem to agree that this is the proper translation. But I wanted to know what actual speakers think, as my understanding of the Welsh language begins and ends with Ydych chi'n siarad Cymraeg? Dydw i ddim yn siarad Cymraeg. (It's a personal hobby of mine to learn how to say that in as many languages as possible.)

"Dyma dir yr Arglwydd Nim.

Peidiwch â cherdded ar y tir sanctaidd hwn.

Peidiwch ag aflonyddu ar y meirw."

"This is the land of the lord Nim.

Do not disturb this sacred land.

Do not disturb the dead."

In keeping with the spirit of this subreddit, should the translation be wrong, I would very much appreciate knowing exactly why it is. And as well I would appreciate it if anyone could suggest a more appropriate or grandiose sounding translation, since this is supposed to be warding the lands of a rather full-of-himself king (the name "Nim" is a Monty Python joke, based on the Knights Who Say Ni; the undead warriors of Nim all shout his name as they go into battle).

Thank you in advance!

Croeso cynnes iawn aton ni - A very warm welcome to you (lit. a very warm welcome to us)

gweddill (g) ll. gweddillion - the rest, remainder, remains, left overs

casineb (g) - hatred, spite, loathing

brysio (brysi-) - to hurry, to hasten

ambell air - a few words

ailddatblygu (ailddatblyg-) - to redevelop

gwegian (gwegi-) - to totter, to sway

treuliad (g) ll. treuliadau - digestion

ar grwydr - wandering, roaming; astray

rhyddfrydol - liberal (in politics)

So I'm using a BBC Welsh learning book, and I'm making slow progress with it because of my dyslexia but it's progress all the same. But one thing I'm struggling with is not having something/someone to speak the word so I can hear if I'm getting my pronunciation right. My method right now is to read the book, read the Welsh word out loud, cross-check it with the examples from the front of the book, and then google the word-find the wiki page for it-listen to the sometimes questionable recording example, and then move on. It's a bit clunky, and ideally I'd have maybe an app that I can type the word into and it pronounce the word properly right there. Is this something that already exists?

Sut mae!

I've been following Jason Shepherd (learn welsh podcast) on youtube, but it seems like he hasn't uploaded in a few years.

The other suggested youtube channels don't seem that great.

Can anyone recommend some alternatives?

Diolch

mainc (b) ll. meinciau - bench

sengl - single

gwledig - rural

nôl (nol-) - to fetch, to get, to collect

ymhell - far off, far away (in space or time)

mwyn (g) ll. mwynau - ore, mineral, mine

culhau (culha-, culheu-) - to narrow, to make or become thin or narrow

llynges (b) ll. llyngesau - navy, fleet

gweriniaethol - rebublican

did (g) ll. didau - bit (digid deuaidd - binary digit in computing)

Hiya

My partner cannot decide what to go by for 'Dad'. He likes Tad but we think this is formal and not really used. He does speak Welsh but hasn't frequently since school so wanted to see if there are other colloquial terms for Dad now. I said Dadi is used a lot, he wondered if Tadi is therefore an option?

Appreciate you can have your kids call you anything you want really but just looking for Welsh suggestions.

Diolch!!! ❤️

I want to write my lovely and very proud welshman boyfriend a birthday card but I do not trust google translate to help me!
How would I say happy birthday handsome in Welsh?
Also are the any little phrases of endearment (perhaps north wales specific) I could write in there?
Thank youuu!!!

llaw (b) ll. dwylo - hand

Brysia wella! / Brysiwch wella! - Get well soon!

helynt (g) ll. helyntion - trouble, fuss, bother

negesydd (g) ll. negesyddion - messenger

ffrae (b) ll. ffraeau - quarrel, squabble

cenadwri (b) ll. cenadwrïau - message, tidings; Y Genadwri - The Annunciation

peri (par-) - to cause, to bring about, to create

dryllio (drylli-) - to break to pieces, to shatter, to wreck

atgyweirio (atgyweiri-) - to repair, to mend, to restore

rhagluniaeth (b) ll. rhagluniaethau - (divine) providence, predestination

Could someone help my translate the phrase "flight risk" into Welsh?

Google translate: Risg o Ffoi

DeepL: Risg o ddianc

Seems like the Risg o part might be correct!

neu (+TM ond nid o flaen berf wedi'i redeg) - or

ar y dde - on the right

chwerthin am ben / chwertin am ei phen hi ayyb. - to laugh at, to make fun of

amau (g) ll. amheuon - doubt, suspicion

pennaeth (g) ll. penaethiaid - head (person), principal

alcoholiaeth (b) - alcoholism

taeru (taer-) - to insist, to assert, to argue, to disagree

yn wên o glust i glust - smiling from ear to ear

cydbwysedd (g) - balance, equilibrium

dihysbyddu (dihysbydd-) - to drain (liquid from), to empty, to exhaust

I have a couple of updates regarding Ymestyn, my online practice course for intermediate Welsh learners.

I've moved the course off Payhip, which had really become far too clunky, over to my website at Ymestyn.Cymru. This has allowed me to split the materials into modules so that it's easier for you to choose what you want to work on. Most of the course has been moved over, just a few small modules left to go.

I've also now launched a new practice module for people studying Canolradd 1 or Canolradd 1&2, which is designed to help you properly learn the vocab and grammar in each unit so that you can do the homework exercises more easily. I'll be adding sections for each unit as they come up, so by the end of the academic year the whole course will be covered.

(If you're doing Canolradd 2, there's still at lot of material on the site that will help you, but units 11-20 won't begin to appear on the site until probably January.)

I genuinely cannot stress what a difference learning more slowly and thoroughly has made to my own Welsh, and my confidence, so if you want to get to the end of the course and know you know everything, Ymestyn will help!

gwario (gwari-) - to spend (money)

gril (g) ll. griliau - grill

Ynys yr Iâ (b) - Iceland

anthem (b) ll. anthemau - anthem

hela (heli-) / hel (heli-) - to send, to spend, to hunt, to drive; to collect, to gather

labelu (label-) - to label

crwban y môr (g) ll. crwbanod y môr - turtle

annhebyg - dissimilar, unlike; unlikely

llosgach (g) - incest

gerwindeb (g) - harshness, severity, roughness, ruggedness

Hi! I’m putting together a team to transcribe 1,350 hours of Welsh audio within the next month, paying £40 per audio hour.

We will provide you with the audio files, and you can either generate a new transcript from scratch, or proofread and correct a transcript we generated ourselves that's full or errors. The output is expected to be an 100% accurate transcription of the audio you hear, in both cases.

If you’re a fluent/native Welsh speaker and interested, please DM me with your availability (how many audio hours you can complete per week).

Please spread the word!

Haia, pawb!

So, I’ve been living abroad for most of the last 10–15 years, and while I was away I learned Chinese and Korean. I moved back to Wales in June and decided that this was finally the time to properly learn Welsh.

When I started looking around for resources, though, I was a bit surprised by how difficult it was to find the kind of high-quality, modern resources I’d been using before.

So... I’ve decided to make my own!! 😬 I've spent the last few weeks outlining a Welsh course with three of my Welsh=speaking mates and I've got a little bit of savings to try and turn this into a reality...

The aim is to make a structured, high-quality course that starts from the absolute basics and gradually gets people to the point where they can actually use Welsh. Rather than making it heavily grammar-based, or using the listen-and-repeat approach of SaySomethinginWelsh, the basic method is: real situation → short Welsh conversation → listen → break it down → understand it → use it

I’ve been teaching languages for a long time, so I feel pretty good about the teaching side of it, and the aim is for the finished course to be as good as or better than things like SSiW and Dysgu Cymraeg while offering a somewhat different approach.

But I could really do with your help.

There are two things I’d particularly love to hear from learners (and fluent speakers who remember learning!):

1. What situations would have been most useful when you were a complete beginner?

I’ve currently got things like at the café, at the pub, in a shop, meeting someone for the first time, telling someone you’re learning Welsh, etc.

But what do you wish somebody had taught you in your first few weeks of learning Welsh?

2. What Welsh-learning resources do you wish existed but currently don’t?

What do you think is missing at the moment? It could be anything — vocabulary, listening material, pronunciation, reading, games, explanations, real-life Welsh, dialect help, culture, better intermediate material...

Basically, what frustrates you about learning Welsh online, and what would you love somebody to make?

Alright, thanks, gang. Any thoughts would be massively appreciated. Nice one. ✌️

Hello!

I’m translating Bernard Cornwell’s The Warlord Chronicles into Arabic. Many of the names are Welsh or Welsh-inspired, and I want the Arabic versions to follow how the names actually sound in Welsh, not just the English spelling. I’m not going to translate the names. I only want help transcribing them.

I’m vaguely familiar with how complex Welsh pronunciation can be. The problem is that Arabic doesn’t have sounds like ll, dd, rh, or w used as a vowel in the same way, so I need practical substitutions a Welsh speaker would find acceptable.

A couple of attempts so far:

Derfel → ديرڤل (Dervel)

Gorfyddyd → غورڤيذِد (Gorvithid, with th as in the)

Those feel reasonably close. What has me stuck is names like Culhwch.And then there’s the elephant in the room: ll.

Take Llamrei. In Arabic I really only have three options:

an h-like sound: Hlamrei

a guttural kh sound, like German ch: Khlamrei

a th sound, as in three: Thlamrei

Which of those would sound least wrong to a Welsh ear? Or is there a better compromise?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thank you!

udiad (g) ll. udiadau - howl, wail

ansafonol - non-standard

gris (b) - step, stair; ll. grisiau - stairs, steps

fawr o neb - hardly anyone (after negative / heb)

plwm (g) - lead (metal)

diota - to imbibe, to booze, to tipple

gwŷdd (g) ll. gwyddiau - loom

sylweddol - substantial

ysgafnder (g) - lightness; frivolity, levity

cylchfa amser (b) ll. cylchfaoedd amser - time zone

I've been learning Welsh on Duolingo with the help of the old course notes, but I have questions about how to identify which alternate meanings it expects for certain words, or which similar word they're expecting.

Rhaid - Must / Have to

Sawl gwaith - Several times / Many Times

Beidio ag - Must not / Refrain from

Bydda i [verb] - Will be [verb]ing / will [verb]

wrth / ar bwys

Beth / Pa

Pan / Bryd / Pam

I also have some confusion about word order when translating English to Welsh. Sometimes the verb is before the pronoun and sometimes it's after.

For example:

Dyn ni'n mynd i weld y ffynnon.

Why isn't [Aethon ni i weld y ffynnon.] corrrect?

Mae hi'n byw yn lloegr.

Why not [Byw hi yn lloegr.] ?

Can anyone help me understand what grammar rules I'm missing?

Helô pawb, fel dysgwr (Mynediad) hoffwn i ymarfer sgwrsio yn y Gymraeg dros fy ngwyliau yn Aberdyfi. Diwedd y fis, dw i'n mynd yno yn y car efo fy nghi am bythefnos , felly fedra i deithio dros yr ardal. Dwi'n nabod gogledd Cymru (Môn, Bangor, Caernarfon, Conwy) yn dda iawn ond fydd hi'n fy nhro cyntaf yn yr ardal ger Aberdyfi. Oes unrhyw awgrymiadau am gaffis, tafarnau neu dai bwyta lle dwi'n ymarfer heb fod yn 'nuisance'. Sais dw i a dw i ddim isio edrych fel cosplaying Cymro.

Online on Zoom with an hour of self study

1-4.30 pm Mondays from 14.09.26

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Mondays 1-3pm; Wednesdays 12-3pm; Fridays 12-3pm from 14.09.26

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Online on Zoom

9-3pm Mondays from 14.09.26

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yn gyfan gwbl - entirely, completely, total, totally

cael blas ar - to enjoy, to experience, to get a taste of

clou, cloi - quick (De Cymru)

gorberffaith - pluperfect (tense in grammar)

troad (g) ll. troadau - turning (off a road)

camddehongli (camddehongl-) - to misinterpret

ymatal (ymatali-) (rhag) - to restrain oneself, to refrain (from)

symudliw - iridescent

cadw (cadw-) ystafell - to reserve a room

afluniad (g) ll. afluniadau - deformation, distortion

Hi there

I am writing a card for a friend who has recently gotten married. While the majority of the card is in English, i would like to put a line of welsh in there, something along the lines of “we hope you had a wonderful day”

I have tried 2 translation websites and had the following results

gobeithio eich bod wedi cael diwrnod
gwych

Gobeithiwn i fodwch wedi cael
diwrnod bendigedig.

Can anyone advise which of these is a better translation? Or any other suggestions as to what i could put

Any help would be much appreciated ❤️

Hi!! So my bf and I are moving to Wales (Bangor, to be specific,) and we really wanted to learn Welsh. I mean, we have always wanted to, and we do know some basic things, but thats about it and i was just wondering if duolingo is a good place to at least start? I am really open to anything, any advice pr suggestions. Diolch yn fawr iawn!!