"Have you gone to work?"
Translation:Dych chi wedi mynd i'r gwaith?
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Can anyone tell me why it is 'gwaith' and not 'gweithio'? Or am I just mixing the terms up? I thought gweithio meant work
Gwaith - work (the noun):
- Mae'r gwaith yn anodd iawn - The work is very difficult
Gweithio - working/to work (the verb-noun):
- Dw i'n gweithio yn y dafarn heno - I'm working in the pub this evening
Well, you could, but you would perhaps be more likely to phrase that as "I've gone there to work" - Dw i wedi mynd yno i weithio - or similar.
It is a common problem in something like Duolingo where the phrases appear with no conversational context. In the wild, there will very probably be a conversation of some sort going on which puts a phrase in context, so the potential ambiguities are far fewer.
A long-standing bug that Duo have still not fixed. The course teams cannot fix that kind of thing. Please raise a ‘Duolingo bug report’ - the more people who do that, the quicker they may fix it.
Yes; it's one of the form of the word for "the" -- so the sentence is literally something like "are you after going to the work?".
The Welsh for "the" can look like yr or like y or like 'r depending on what comes before and after it. Here it's 'r because there's a vowel before it.
> so the sentence is literally something like "are you after going to the work?"
That's just made something click in my head - Irish people use this form of 'are you after' in English, so now I understand better :-)
Guess it's the common Celtic roots.
See the Hints and Tips for the section on 'The' for an explanation of when to use which form of 'the' in Welsh, 'r, yr, or y.
