"Mi ges i sudd oren i frecwast."

Translation: I had orange juice for breakfast.

[crush]

Why is 'mi' sometimes added?

[EllisVaughan]

Mi has no translation and is called a verbal particle. It can placed at the start of a sentence in the past, future or conditional tense and causes a soft mutation.

[crush]

I'm pretty sure i saw the exact same sentence but without the 'mi' later on. Other times i added 'mi' before 'ges i' and it was marked wrong. I'm not sure when to add it and when to leave it off, it's not clear to me...

[EllisVaughan]

Something I forgot to add is that you don't put "Mi" at the start of a question in any tense. So "Gest ti frecwast?" is fine but "Mi gest ti frecwast?" would be wrong.

[EllisVaughan]

It should be accepted for every sentence for the future, past and conditional.
these all mean the same thing,
Mi fydd hi= Bydd hi= she will. If you get an answer like that marked wrong then I'd recommend reporting.

[Matthew251391]

If mi triggers soft mutation why isn't the g in 'ges' deleted? ie. why isn't the sentence 'mi es i...'?

[mizinamo]

The 'g' is the mutated form; the unmutated form is 'ces'.

[Matthew251391]

aaah it all makes sense, have a lingot! Diolch!

[Brid-Eilis]

So are "Mi ges i sudd oren i frecwast" and "ges i sudd oren i frecwast" both correct?

And is the "mi" ever used in colloquial speech?
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