"Mae chwe deg aelod y cynulliad."

Translation: There are sixty members of the Assembly.

[David-O-509]

Could this literally be understood as 'Sixty are the members of the Assembly'? And therefore why 'oes.....' isn't used in the Welsh, even though it's very tempting from the English!?

[Brennos86]

That would be used for a question

[NeilSherif]

Where does the "there are" come in, i just translated it (incorrectly) as "sixty members of the assembly".

[ibisc]

Mae is the verb here. In this pattern - one concerning the existence of something - it is translated as 'There is/are...':

• Mae teigr yn y gegin - There's a tiger in the kitchen
• Mae dau fwnci ar gefn y teigr - There are two monkeys on the tiger's back