"Mae fy mrawd i'n gweithio mewn siop."

Translation: My brother works in a shop.

[AliT.Firefly]

Could this not equally well be 'Mae fy mrawd yn gweithio mewn siop'?

[ibisc]

As a translation, yes. It is one of the accepted alternatives here.

[RhiannonSt167976]

I was marked incorrect for mae fy mrawd yn gweithio mewn siop

[ibisc]

If it was a listening exercise then you need to answer with the version spoken - I would expect that to be ... fy mrawd i'n ..., here, and i'n and yn are not pronounced in the same way.

If it was a translation exercise, Mae fy mrawd yn gweithio mewn shop. should be accepted.

[mizinamo]

I don't think listening exercises can accept multiple alternatives.

[TerryMarle]

It was still not accepted as correct.

[savandwich]

what's the difference between "mewn" and "yn" when saying "in"?

[rmcode]

This is one of the big questions about learning Welsh and causes much confusion although the answer is quite simple before nouns.

Mewn = 'In' + 'indefinite article' so since there isn't an 'a' in Welsh, 'mewn' in front of a noun = 'in a'

Yn = 'In' + 'definite article' = "in the'

Mewn siop = In a shop

Yn y siop = In the shop

[savandwich]

got it! thank you :-)

[EllisVaughan]

"Mewn" is a general form of "in" so think of it meaning "in a" and "yn" is specific so think of it as "in the". So you would use "mewn" for this sentence but use "yn" for "Mae fy mrawd i'n gweithio yn Asda" which is "My brother works in Asda".

[savandwich]

thank you! I find it interesting how different languages can have more than one term for words we don't even consider in English. :-)

[Norma494284]

what is the grammatical difference between yn and i'n, please?

[mizinamo]

what is the grammatical difference between yn and i'n, please?

i'n is a contraction of i and yn.

i can be "I" (as in dw i'n cysgu "I'm sleeping") or "my" (as in mae fy nghi i'n cysgu "my dog is sleeping").

[Douglas680894]

Thanks

[Norma494284]

thanks mizinamo, I had totally overlooked the possessive aspect here

[GaynorBuss]

the audio is not good enough, even when slow, to distinguish i'n from yn

[rmcode]

The audio sounds pretty accurate to me at normal speed. The slow one clearly has the 'n' sound but also slightly underpronounces the 'i' making it sound like 'in' rather than 'i'n'...however 'yn' would sound very differently as the 'y' has an 'uh' sound.

[NScSu]

I wrote that very sentence with 'yn', but it was not accepted.

[EllisVaughan]

'Yn' would be in correct as a translation for 'in' in this sentence. 'Yn' is used when in a definite thing e.g. 'Yn y siop' or 'Yn Asda/Walmart/etc', the appropriate word here is 'mewn'.

[Doshia2]

So did I a couple times, as a listening exercise, but I finally realized that YN would be pronounced kind of like rhyming with fun and I ' n would be pronounced more like een, which is what I heard here when I listened carefully.

[PeterThoma23562]

I agree with GaynorBuss Why is the "n" elided?

[rmcode]

standard rule, always after a vowel, especially as here a pronoun.