Welsh Nouns

Welcome to the third Welsh lesson about nouns. This time we will first learn about fruits and vegetables, followed by grammar rules, then food items, finally a conversation in Welsh to help you practice your daily phrases.

potatoes tatws

tomatoes tomatos

onions winwns

carrots moron

fruits ffrwythau

apples afalau

bananas bananas

oranges orennau

Nouns Grammar Rules

In general nouns refer to a person, an object, or abstract ideas. For example: a fast runner the noun is [runner] because it refers to a person. The examples below use nouns in different ways and places to demonstrate how they behave in a sentence.

Grammar + Rules - Welsh
do you have milk? [verb + noun] oes llaeth gennych chi?
I have milk and coffee [preposition + noun] mae gen i laeth a choffi
he has three apples [number + plural noun] mae gyda fe dri afal
she only has one apple [number + singular noun] does dim ond un afal gyda hi
we live in a small house [adjective + noun] dyn ni'n byw mewn tŷ bach
I like our breakfast [pronoun + noun] dw i'n hoffi ein brecwast

The following are nouns of food items that you might be interested in learning and memorizing.

bread bara

milk llaeth

butter menyn

cheese caws

coffee coffi

sandwich brechdan

meat cig

chicken cyw iâr

fish pysgod

breakfast brecwast

lunch cinio

dinner cinio

Conversation in Welsh

Now we finally reach the fun part, the practice of the daily conversations. These phrases are used to get to know new people, and break the ice.

English - Welsh
Do you speak (English/ Welsh)? ydych chi'n siarad (saesneg / cymraeg)?
Just a little dim ond ychydig
I like Welsh dw i'n hoffi cymraeg
Can I practice with you? alla i ymarfer gyda chi?
How old are you? beth yw eich oedran?
I'm thirty three years old dw i'n 33 mlwydd oed
It was nice talking to you roedd yn braf siarad â chi

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