"Priodas Hefin a Gareth"

Translation: Hefin and Gareth's wedding

[EinarSig]

Awwwww, gay marriage <3<3

[rmcode]

There's also Alys and Sioned as well :-)

[EinarSig]

That's so cute!!

[HaroldWonh]

Why do you insist on "the" here in English when there is nothing in Welsh?

[Yottskry]

I'd like to know the same thing. I put "Wedding of Hefin and Gareth" and it was marked as wrong because I missed the "the", but I don't see a "Y" in the Welsh.

[ibisc]

Using the pattern 'the wedding of X' is often rather clumsy in English. It is generally easier to say "X's wedding"

If there is a possessive relations between two things, an extra 'the' and an 'of' are often needed in English but not in Welsh. 'the A's B' (the B of the A) is put into Welsh as B y A:

• pawen y gath - (the paw of the cat) - the cat's paw

English sometimes avoids using a possessive in some expressions:

• neuadd y pentre - (the hall of the village, or the village's hall) - the village hall

Where there is a proper noun in the Welsh there is no need for the definite article 'r/yr/y (or somethimes the 'the' in the English)

• car Dewi - (the car of Dewi) - Dewi's car
• tîm pêl-droed Aber - (the football team of Aber) - (the) Aber football team

See the course notes for the sections on 'Possession' for more examples.

[pablopublico]

Is "Hefin's and Gareth's wedding" wrong? Non native English speaker here.

[ryagami97]

It implies that there are two separate weddings, one Hefin's and one Gareth's, but I don't know if the Welsh sentence can mean both or if it implies that there's only one wedding, Hefin and Gareth's.

[Becca-reyna]

In English the possessive apostrophe only goes on the last thing in the list. Or at least, it does in this situation. Knowing English, it might not be a consistent rule! :)