"Will you listen to me?"

[jujoha]

Is 'wnei di wrando i fi' not a correct alternative?

[ibisc]

Certain prepositions go with certain verbs to create specific meanings. gwrando goes with ar, to mean 'listening to'.

[harlandski]

Hello, another revision question. There are two alternative answers given on the phone app "Fyddi di'n gwrando arna i" and "Wnei di wrando arna i". My questions are: 1) What is the difference in meaning or usage between these two forms? 2) Why does fyddi require "yn" but wnei doesn't? Thank you!

[ibisc]

Meanings - The two patterns are generally equivalent. If you want to convey a continous activity, though -'I will be listening' - then the form with bod (Bydda i'n gwrando) is usually preferred.

Yn/'n - Forms of bod such as byddi di... need a linking word to connect to verb-nouns (such as gwrando). For incomplete actions this is yn/'n and for completed actions it is wedi. There are other possibilities, but those are the two very common ones:

• Dw i'n gwrando - I listen/am listening
• Bydda i'n gwrando - I will listen/be listening
• Bydda i wedi gwrando - I will have listened

Using forms of gwneud, the verb-noun gwrando (listening) just becomes an object of the action 'doing' (gwneud). No need for yn/'n and we use a soft mutation to mark the object:

• Gwna i wrando - I will listen. (Literally, 'I will do listening')
• Gwnes i wrando - I did listen, I listened

[harlandski]

Great, thank you - crystal clear as ever! Additional thanks for explaining why gwrando mutates after gwneud!

[beifongfao]

I believe "Wnei di wrando arna fi?" is a Northern Welsh variant and therefore should also be accepted and not marked as a typo.

[ibisc]

That is not a dialect variant. If you want to keep the -f sound it goes on arna(f):

• arna i; arnaf i are both accepted here.