"Dw i newydd bleidleisio."

Translation: I have just voted.

[Estel785882]

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.

[ibisc]

newydd here is used an adverb with the meaning 'have just'. It replaces wedi in this pattern. Note that it causes a soft mutation.

newydd is also an adjective meaning 'new'.

[Estel785882]

Diolch! I recognized "newydd" as "new" but didn't know that it could be used differently in this pattern.

[JSD83]

I knew "newydd" could stand for having just done, but I rather expected the wedi also. Maybe I'd forgotten about the special case.

[Phil415270]

How do you say ' I am just voting'

[ibisc]

It depends on exactly what you mean. For example:

• Dw i ar fin pleidleisio. - I am just about to vote.
• Dw i wrthi'n pleidleisio. - I am in the middle of voting; I am busy voting; etc

[Phil415270]

thanks for that, so am I correct in thinking that 'newydd' as it appears in this sentence structure means an action that has happened in the recent past?

[ibisc]

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.

[Phil415270]

Diolch eto