Duolingo Welsh - makes a change from knitting!

Pawb = Everyone

Thank you!

In the Duolingo Welsh course, it says that the Welsh word yn does not translate into English.

Looking at it, it seems to me that it can be regarded as meaning "doing".

Is that reasonable?

I don't know, my Welsh is practically non-existent but yn rang a bell.

Of course, when I googled, a suburb of a Welsh city came up, which is called Allt-yr-yn but the yn in that instance should be ynn.
Ynn with two 'n's is the plural of onnen (ash tree), a word with which I'm very familiar.

Sorry, that's no help at all but I'll try to find out.

Doesn't yn generally mean in? I think the use may vary, though.

Welsh is quite complicated because of all the mutations. So loosely yn means in or at I think.

I think it posibly does mean 'in' in some circumstances.

I am thinking of sentences like the following.

Dw i ddim yn hoffi pannas.

And when abbrevated as 'n as in the following.

Dw i'n hoffi cennin.

StarDreamer I did an intensive Welsh course to help with my work at the time.
I seem to have forgotten much of it now sadly.
Good luck with your Welsh course.

‘Yn’ can also be ‘is’....

Mae’r cath yn eistedd ar y llawr

StarDreamer, I tried to send you a PM, but evidently you have opted not to receive them.

I’ve just accepted yn as an untranslatable fact, but I dare say you’re right - it could equate to e.g. ‘I’m ‘doing’ liking/ eating/walking, whatever - or not ‘doing’ whatever the verb is, as the case may be.

Some erudite expert in different Celtic lingos might be able to enlighten us!

As long as I can read the road signs ?

ARAF

Callistemon21

As long as I can read the road signs ?

ARAF

That's the most important thing. Not that anyone round here takes any notice of ARAF

AGAA4

Callistemon21

As long as I can read the road signs ?

ARAF

That's the most important thing. Not that anyone round here takes any notice of ARAF

The problem is, though, AGAA4, that some of the road signs telling us about roadworks are so long and in Welsh first that we can miss the English part.

So me times mutations in the Welsh language can be amusing
The word for mutations is treiglad.
A fear of mutations is treiglaffobia.
I have a fear of mutations is mae gen i dreiglaffobia
Please note the mutation ?