"Fy nghas beth"
Translation:My pet hate
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2527
So, is there some superlative here? Is nghas a verbal adjective of some sort? Is it derived from casau in some regular way that I could derive a similar superlative adjective from some other verb?
It might be easier to think of these as idioms:
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Fy nghas beth yw... (My pet hate is...; The thing I hate most is...)
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Fy hoff beth yw... (My favourite thing is ...)
cas and hoff are two of a small number of adjectives which can have slightly different meanings when used before or after the noun. Putting cas and hoff after a noun gives us:
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y ci cas; y gath gas (the nasty dog; the nasty cat)
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ffrind hoff (a dear friend) (not such a common usage, but you do meet it sometimes)
2527
As Stardecki says above, in the United States, we would definitely only say "pet peeve."