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Mynd i'r Caffi / Going to the Cafe

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Llinos: Reit dda, diolch, Marged - a chdi?

Marged: Wedi blino.

Llinos: Wyt ti isio panad?

Marged: Oes, - wyt ti isio mynd i'r caffi yn y Stryd Fawr?

Llinos: Pam lai?

Marged: Coffi, os gwelwch yn dda.

(2 minutes later)
Llinos: Dyma ni - dau goffi. Ti isio siwgr?

Marged: Nac oes diolch.

If you know someone well, or if you are talking to a child, then use ti for you instead of chi. We use chi in the singular for less familiar occasions.

So we have:

Reit dda / Really, quite well
a chdi ? / And you? In North Wales, chdi is often used instead of ti at the end of a phrase.

yn y Stryd Fawr/ in the High Street
In Welsh, the is conveyed by y. It sounds similar to the u in the English word hut (as pronounced in standard English!). Before a vowel sound, y becomes yr.
y ty / the house
y car / the car
yr ysbyty / the hospital (y is a vowel in Welsh)
yr athro / the teacher

Pam lai? / Why not?
isio want (this is a quasi-verb - it is not normally preceded by yn.)

In North Wales, questions involving isio are answered with oes / nac oes.

Dach chi isio coffi? / Do you want coffee? Oes - "I do" Nac oes - "I don't"

The "translations" of Oes and Nac oes above are nominal and not literal. For now, Think of them as Oes = affirmative and Nac oes = negative. These two phrases mean something slightly different in other contexts. A full explanation would be too technical at this stage.

dau goffi / two coffees

The word dau (= two) always triggers the soft mutation. Here, the 'c' in coffi is changed to g. More on the soft mutation later.

In welsh how do you say "I want"?
This is usually contracted to "dwisio".

How do you say " I want two coffees"/ Dw i ishio dau goffi

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