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Gwers 6 / Lesson 6

Trafod y Tywydd / Discussing the Weather
Gwrandewch ar y deialog canlynol. Listen to the following dialogue.
Note that some words in the dialogue begin with different sounds compared to their listings in the vocabulary. This will be explained.

Two acquaintances meet on the train at Bangor station.

Nerys: Bore da, sut dach chi?

Deiniol: Iawn diolch. Dach chi isio eistedd yma?

Nerys: O, diolch yn fawr.

Deiniol: Mae'n oer heddiw.

Nerys: Ydy, tydy? Ond mae'n gynnes yma ar y trên.

Deiniol: Lle dach chi'n mynd?

Nerys: Dw i'n mynd i Gaer. Lle dach chi'n mynd?

Deiniol: Dw i'n mynd i Lundain. Mae'n bwrw glaw yn Llundain.

Nerys: Sut dach chi'n gwybod hynny? (How do you know that?)

Deiniol: Ar y radio y bore'ma.

Geirfa / Vocabulary
bore da / good morning
eistedd / to sit, sitting
yma / here
diolch yn fawr / thank you very much
oer / cold
heddiw / today
cynnes / warm
Caer / Chester
Llundain / London
glaw / rain (noun)
bwrw glaw / to rain/raining
gwybod / to know (a fact - not a person or place)
hynny / that (abstract)
radio / radio
yma / here
y bore'ma / this morning (in full - y bore yma. Literally this is - the morning here)
Grammar / Gramadeg
 The Weather.
In English, there are three genders, Masculine (he), feminine (she) and Neuter (it).
In Welsh we only have two genders, Masculine and Feminine. We therefore have to use one of these to convey the meaning of it. For the weather, we use the feminine.

Mae hi'n bwrw glaw / It is raining (literally she is raining!!)
In English, people usually say It's raining . The two words it and is become it's .
In Welsh we reduce mae hi'n to mae'n. Mae'n bwrw glaw - It's raining.
From now on we'll use mae'n to mean mae hi'n.

Describing weather conditions
Mae'n braf / It's fine/ braf = fine
Mae'n gynnes * / Its warm / cynnes = warm
Mae'n ofnadwy / Its terrible / ofnadwy = terrible
Mae'n niwlog / Its foggy / niwlog = foggy
Mae'n stormus / Its stormy / stormus = stormy
Mae'n wyntog ** / Its windy / gwyntog = windy
Mae'n heulog / Its sunny / heulog = sunny
Mae'n wlyb** / Its wet / gwlyb = wet

* mutation: c to g
** mutation: g disappears More on this later

Mae'n bwrw glaw / Its raining bwrw glaw = to rain / raining
Mae'n bwrw eira / Its snowing bwrw eira = to snow / snowing

Learn the above phrases

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