"Roedd hi'n wyntog ddoe."

Translation: It was windy yesterday.

[Aliperr]

Have I missed the lesson that covered roedd etc? I'm pretty sure it hasn't been covered on this course yet.

[SiblingCreature]

Yeah it's the first time I've ever encountered it. What's worse, it was in a "translate using these words" exercise so I wasn't offered any hover hints.

[Yottskry]

Are you using the app? In the browser version / website there is a notes section when you click on a topic and before you go into a lesson. The notes aren't on the app version yet.

[AnUnicorn]

Does wyntog look kind of Germanic to anyone else? The -og seems remniscient of the -ig found in German and Dutch, and gwynt seems awfully close to wind.

[mizinamo]

gwynt, wind, and Latin ventus are all related, coming from a common ancestor something like *wentos.

[AndreiChichizola]

In Spanish it is "viento"

[andyroo93]

In Irish, it's 'gaoth' (pronounced gwee or gee).

[sbnaidu]

Why is 'roedd hi'n' used instead of mae hi'n

[mizinamo]

Because we're talking about the past: It was windy yesterday, not It is windy yesterday.

[Neenerzzz]

Could we say "Mae hi wedi wyntog ddoe" for past tense?

[ibisc]

No, that phrasing doesn't really make any sense. If you add a bod yn and take away ddoe it makes sense but doesn't mean the same thing as the sentence given:

• Mae hi wedi bod yn wyntog - It has been windy

We use roedd for describing the general weather which continued for a while in the past:

• Roedd hi'n oer/dwym/wyntog/bwrw glaw - It was cold/warm/windy/raining