"Dw i newydd bleidleisio."
Translation:I have just voted.
August 21, 2016
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Estel785882
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How does the grammar work here? There's a "dw i" with no "yn" before the verb, and usually when the English translation has "have VERBed" I'd expect "wedi" in the Welsh, but something different is happening here.
Estel785882
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Diolch! I recognized "newydd" as "new" but didn't know that it could be used differently in this pattern.
Yes. You can also use it to say that something had recently happened just before something else happened in the past, again by substituting newydd for wedi:
- Dw i wedi cyrraedd. - I have arrived. (present perfect tense)
- Dw i newydd gyrraedd Caerdydd. - I have just arrived in Cardiff.
- Ro'n i wedi cyrraedd. - I had arrived. (pluperfect tense)
- Ro'n i newydd gyrraedd Caerdydd pan drawais i ar Sam. - I had just arrived in Cardiff when I bumped into Sam.