"Dw i wedi mynd ddoe."

Translation:I have gone yesterday.

January 30, 2016

9 Comments

wouldn't you say "I went yesterday"?. You can't have past perfect with a time word like "yesterday" so it's a bit ungrammatical in english. Also, wondering if this applies to Welsh. Do you have a distinction between went and have gone?

January 30, 2016

owainlPlus

Yes it is as clumsy in Welsh as in English. You would say 'Fe es i ddoe' or just 'Es i ddoe' for 'I went yesterday'.

March 14, 2016

Alannamac

It accepted my answer 'I went yesterday' so I think it must just be an interpretation thing

January 30, 2016

Mattais

just thinking the exact same thing

January 30, 2016

Capt.Picard

It is far too soon for sentences like this. This is very awkward.

April 9, 2016

John_B_Kohler

Would "I had gone yesterday" work? It's no longer yesterday as far as I can tell.

June 23, 2016

mizinamo

"I had gone" would be not "dw i wedi mynd" but "o'n i wedi mynd"

June 23, 2016

John_B_Kohler

Thank you for the clarification. I'm filing this under "things that I can understand, but I can't imagine when I'd rather to say it that way."

June 23, 2016

mizinamo

Yes, several of the wedi sentences in this course are rather odd, as present perfect + an explicit time component doesn't really work in many dialects of English including mine.

June 23, 2016