"Do you own this?"

Translation: Ti sy biau hwn?

[Cynphony]

wyt ti biau hwn? . Would that work also?

[ibisc]

No. As explained in the course notes, biau is a very unusual defective verb that is only used in an emphatic pattern in the modern language.

Since it is a verb, you cannot use it with another verb such as wyt ti?, etc.

[Aspiechick]

Where can i find the course notes? I wasn't aware of these

[ibisc]

To see how to find the course notes generally, go to https://forum.duolingo.com/topic/924/hot and read the discussion 'Course tips and notes'. The 'duome' link there is useful for browsing all the notes in one place. We recommend reading the notes for each new section as you start it.

[JudyAdamso1]

Why is it 'hwn' and not 'hyn' as we don't know what it's referring to?

[ibisc]

When refering to a physical thing of unknown grammatical gender it it usual to use the masculine pronoun.

[JudyAdamso1]

So what is 'hyn' used for?

[ibisc]

hyn is used as a demonstrative adjective with plurals:

• y cathod hyn - these cats

As a demonstrative pronoun like hon or hwn (this, this one), it is used for intangible things:

• Mae hyn yn wastraff o amser. - This is a waste of time.
• Pryd digwyddodd hyn/hynny? - When did this/that happen?

See the notes for 'Money' - https://www.duolingo.com/skill/cy/Money/tips-and-notes

To see how to find the course notes generally, go to https://forum.duolingo.com/topic/924/hot and read the discussion 'Course tips and notes'. The 'duome' link there is useful for browsing all the notes in one place. We recommend reading the notes for each new section as you start it.

[JudyAdamso1]

Thank you.

[PKBrummie]

You have a typo.
Ti sy biau hon?

[ibisc]

Since 'this' is a thing of unspecified gender, hwn is the one to use.

[Cynthia613690]

Thank you, I was wondering about that!

[Wyn677864]

Would it not be a strange conversation in which the gender of the object under discussion was not known? It could be feminine

[1e7nx0WG]

I don't agree. There are plenty of mysterious objects in this world that I cannot identify and therefore do not know the word for, making it impossible to know the gender of that word. I can well imagine this as the start of a conversation,
 Do you own this?
 Yes.
 What is it?
 …

[Wyn677864]

I'r byd a bywyd mor rhyfeddol

[TonyForste]

Why not "Dych chi'n"

[1e7nx0WG]

Is there a reason that "Ti biau hwn?" is not accepted? It seems to be alright to leave sy out in sentences such as "Sioned biau'r gath hon?" in another exercise in this lesson. I should have thought this is basically the same sort of sentence.

[ibisc]

There was a typo in the answers, now fixed - Ti biau hwn? will be accepted as a translation once the correction goes through.