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I'm confused about the verb 'to be' in Welsh. I looked it up and found this website https://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/fun/welsh/Lesson02.html. It says 'I am' is rydw and 'you are' is rwyt. But this has 'dw' without the 'ry'- could someone explain this to me please?
July 18, 2016
MarkBennett6
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There is more than one form. "I am" could be "rydw i", "rwy", "dw i", "wi" or even "yr wyf i". Welsh has different levels of formality and a major division between its southern and northern dialects. Don't worry about these variations as a learner. You can just follow whichever form you find in a course and get used to using that one. The variants can come later.
July 18, 2016
why are northern variants such as "isio" not acceptable? - could have sworn I'm able to use them elsewhere on the course...
July 20, 2019
