Welsh Grammar - Grammatical Gender (ALL THE RULES IN ONE PLACE)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มิ.ย. 2024
- Overview of ALL the contexts where grammatical gender will be make a difference to a sentence in Welsh.
Companion video to my main video explaining what grammatical gender is: • What is grammatical ge...
In the main video, I mention another situation where you might need to be aware of grammatical genders, which is when using a pronoun to refer to another noun (as we do in English with "it" to avoid repeating a word, but in Welsh you have to use "he" or "she" in agreement with the gender of the noun): • What is grammatical ge... (at 4:55)
I apologise for using such traditional colours to represent masculine and feminine. I think colour-coding can be quite useful when classifying things during language learning and, since learners are having to acquire a new system of classification, it makes it easier if the colour coding uses the "familiar" colours.
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I wonder how many time I'll have to watch this under I have it memorized. Diolch!
I know that l am late to the party but l wanted to say that was one of the best and most concise explanations of this subject that l have heard .Diolch yn fawr i chi
didn't realise we used to have masculine and feminine adjectives in Welsh! Know about gwyn/gwen, of course, but didn't realise this was a 'thing'!
This is *so*helpful*. I've watched a couple of your videos now, and they've all been top. I don't want to sound entitled, but why did you stop?
Yeah that's not complicated at all - sheesh!
Seriously thanks for providing a way to understand what's going on. It really does help clarify grammatical gender and make it a bit less intimidating.
Were the rules for mutations deliberately written to mess with people trying to learn the language? Mutations and plurals in Welsh will drive me insane!
Gwych! When I started I decided not to worry about gender or mutations. Now I've started having a look at them and this video is very helpful. So I guess I'd like you to dw something on mutations please! Thanks very much
It's in the works!
Da iawn, diolch! 🎉
awesome and wholesome, well done
It's cool the way Welsh divide this and that. Y ty hwn. Glad I started learning Welsh. Iaith godidog.
My daughter speaks Welsh natively (unlike me) and hasn't got the foggiest about treigladau, masc fem, irregular verbs, weird ways of forming the plural, etc etc etc. Sometimes she days O'n i wedi chwerthin because she's a bit vague on chwerthais or chwerthinais or is it chwerthiniais etc?
Wow that does help clear up a an area of mystery for me. Subscribed.
You have presented a very well formatted and explanatory video, I'm sure that this will be of great help to learners!
You did miss what I think is the most common thing where gender matters though. The possessive pronoun 'ei'. I'm writing this for the viewers rather than you but well done on a fantastic video.
'Ei' as we're aware either causes the treiglad meddal (soft mutation) or the treiglad llaes (aspirate mutation) often depending on the gender of the noun it's referring to.
Masculine will always appear first in the sets below:
Ei gar - His car
Ei char - Her car
This isn't strictly limited to 'his' and 'her' structures either and can result in another 'mutation' called the 'anadliad caled' or 'hard breath'(? I've never seen this in English, only in Welsh at uni) where a 'h' is added before a vowel.
Ei ewythr - His uncle
Ei hewythr - Her uncle
Other structures include:
Cafodd ei atal gan yr heddlu - He was stopped by the police
Cafodd ei hatal gan yr heddlu - She was stopped by the police
Cafodd y bara ei bobi yn y popty - The bread was baked in the bakery
Cafodd y gacen ei phobi yn y popty - The cake was baked in the bakery.
These are very common where it's important to know the gender of the nouns being used for gender agreement and 'ei' is perhaps the most important word for that alongside 'y'.
I did think of this situation but in this case the gender of the noun doesn't matter. The gender of the noun "car" is irrelevant for the choice of possessive pronoun and the mutation that happens. This is important as in some languages the possessive must agree in gender with the NOUN and not with the owner. I didn't want to create confusion. But in truth I wanted to focus only on morpho-syntactical rules. I don't mention using "fe" and "hi" to refer back to a previous noun, for example. But I do mention that in my previous video!
Thanks for your reminder, I'll consider creating an appendix video at some point about these other cases. Terminology is failing me here, but I think they'd be cases of anaphora?
Spot on mate, you do great videos
Well done, you have a very high level grasp of Welsh grammar but your not Welsh?
OK, thanks for the content. But, I am trying to figure out your accent when you speak English, and it sounds neither English nor Welsh. Just curious. If you have a third native language and you are teaching Welsh, that is pretty cool.
Thanks for watching! I am not strictly speaking teaching Welsh, just sharing my strategies as a learner! But I'm originally from Brazil, so Portuguese is my first language. I started this channel after this: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-54355166
@@hiriaith Wow, that's amazing. Congratulations. I am English and I live in Hungary (so I took my citizenship oath in Hungarian). Welsh is my fourth language, and I love it.
I’ve grown up speaking Welsh my whole life and going to Welsh school but not even I know how to treiglo correctly, let alone which gender each word is.🤣 Like I would probably say “y tri car” and not “y tri char”.
Speaking as someone just starting out on their Welsh learning journey, I am planning on pronouncing my Welsh so poorly that no one can tell whether I've got the mutation right or not.
Diolch hir- iaith. Diddorol iawn.
What about mutation with pronouns?
🎉 amazing
Dwi’n dwli ar y tipyn bach o Galon Lân drwy’r fideo!
Excellent video, but please take care with your transitions - the volume was startling every time LOL.
I'm starting to think that English is the only language that doesn't use the genders. Also I have a question is Welsh a SVO, or SOV? Needless to say I know there's many other grammatical orders, but those two are the easiest to get my head around.
It's VSO.
There are a LOT of other languages that don't have grammatical genders. Plus, if words with encoded human gender are included, English doesn't come close to other languages in having the fewest.
diolch
Welsh is a beautifully complex language to learn. I have a head start because I have a Welsh accent unlike the presenter of this video.