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Yn ôl i wers 11 - Back to lesson 11 Gwers 12 / Lesson 12 How to
say what you did in the past Deialog
1 Llinos: Helo, Gwenda, sut wyt ti? Gwenda: Wedi blino. Mi wnes i fynd i'r clwb rygbi efo Aled neithiwr. Llinos: Mi wnes i aros adra neithiwr. Mi wnes i weld ffilm dda ar y teledu. Gwenda: Mi wnes i siarad efo Janet yn y clwb rygbi. Llinos: Ydy hi'n iawn? Gwenda: Ydy. Listen to dialogue 1 again Geirfa neithiwr / last night gweld / to see ,seeing siarad / to speak , speaking siarad efo / to speak to (literally to speak with) Mi wnes i… / I did….. Gramadeg / Grammar Past tense By this, we mean the tense that conveys the idea that you did something. For example: I went I saw In Welsh,
particularly in the north, these examples can be conveyed by saying: We can (and very often do) use the past tense of gwneud (to do), coupled with the appropriate verb. Mi wnes i = I did. The two parts, Mi wnes i + mynd couple together to form: Mi wnes i fynd = I did go = I went. Thus Mi wnes i triggers the soft mutation. In Mi wnes i, the wnes corresponds to did, the i corresponds to I, and the mi is what we call a positive marker, indicating that what follows is a positive statement. This will make more sense to you as your knowledge of Welsh progresses. However, we are now in danger of getting a little too theoretical here, so for now, just learn: Mi wnes i = I did. Note: There is no yn after Mi wnes i. The phrase Mi wnes i'n mynd is totally incorrect. Ymarfer/Exercise 12.1 Say you did the following. Click on any new words to hear them and try saying them on their own first. Then try saying the underlined English sentences in Welsh. Check by clicking on them. agor (to open): I opened the door cau (to close): I closed the window darllen (to read): I read the paper
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