Topic: Welsh

"Blodfresych"

Translation:Cauliflower

February 6, 2016

12 Comments

https://www.duolingo.com/profile/mizinamo
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  • 47

The Welsh seems to be "flower cabbage", like in German ("Blumenkohl")... and like the English with other word order.

February 6, 2016
https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Luis_Domingos

    In Portuguese, we also use a translation of "flower cabbage" (couve-flor).

    August 31, 2017
    https://www.duolingo.com/profile/pablopublico

      Also in Spanish, we say coliflor.

      April 3, 2018
      https://www.duolingo.com/profile/OwainLlyfr
      • 436

      Same in Swedish as well. Blomkål. :-)

      August 25, 2018
      https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Gelgisith
      • 355

      Same in Dutch: "bloemkool"

      BTW, is it bad that i forget how to write "cauliflower" over & over?

      February 18, 2019
      https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Tardusbubulcus

        why have i had "a cauliflower" marked as a wrong answer?

        July 30, 2017
        https://www.duolingo.com/profile/mizinamo
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        • 47

        Because blodfresych is plural or collective, as in "I am eating cauliflower" (an unspecified quantity of the 'substance').

        If you have a single, individual one, it's a blodfresychen.

        July 31, 2017
        https://www.duolingo.com/profile/pablopublico

          As mizinamo stated, blodfresych is composed of blawd ("flower", cognate with bloom, blossom, flower [from Latin flōs, flōris] and foil [from Latin folium, "leaf"]) and bresych ("cabbage" [from Latin brassica, the current scientific name of the genus]).

          April 3, 2018
          https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Morfudd7

            In the audio pronunciation, I'm not hearing the "r" pronounced at all?

            October 25, 2018
            https://www.duolingo.com/profile/OwainLlyfr
            • 436

            I hear it, but you need to listen carefully.

            October 25, 2018
            https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Morfudd7

              O'r gorau, diolch yn fawr

              October 25, 2018
              https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Elias959731

                "Blodfresych" sounds cool

                January 17, 2019
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