"Dych chi eisiau bresych?"

Translation: Do you want some cabbage?

[ffynone]

Restaurant: Do you want cabbage?=Dych chi eisiau bresych?
Shop/market: Do you want cabbages? = Dych chi eisiau bresych?
Do you want a cabbage? = Dych chi eisiau bresychen?

[shwmae]

This is just right! Diolch.

[Sean_Roy]

I love bresych! BTW, the scientific name for cabbage is Brassica oleracea, so it sounds like it's a cognate in Welsh. For us botany nerds, Brassicaceae is the name of the mustard family.

[shwmae]

Yep, there's definitely the influence of Latin on this one: http://geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html?bresych

[MarkAdams211319]

I'm confused about how Savoy cabbage can be Bresych safwy, Bresych crych, Bresych grech and I noticed it said etc.!

[shwmae]

Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru lists all the instances of a term, both historical and modern, so when you look up a word it gives you both the current term(s) and all the ones that are no longer used, hence the multitude of Savoy cabbages. I'm guessing the "&c." refers to all the variant forms of bresych and crych in different combinations. The standard word today would be bresych Safwy.

[MorbidManatee]

So I've learned "cabbages." Now I need to learn "my" so I can scream "MY CABBAGES!"

[shwmae]

"FY MRESYCH!"

[MatthewSke1]

Should "Do you want a cabbage?" be a valid answer? I thought the indefinite article (i.e. a/an) was not used in Welsh, which would allow for my translation to be correct.

[shwmae]

No. One cabbage is "bresychen". "Bresych" is the plural, so "cabbages" or "cabbage" sometimes.

[AngelicaGuts1771]

The pronunciation sounds like "bresech." Am I hearing it correctly?

[shwmae]

In the word bresych, the first vowel is like in the English egg and the second like in is. Or as [ˈbrɛsɪχ] in IPA, if that helps.

[TyNoOutlet]

Oh, and for the question: Nac ydw, diolch!

[Cyndy400749]

I couldn't understand the last word even after listening several times. Diction not good.