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Monday, August 1, 2016

More handy Welsh words: Numbers 1-10,1000, weekdays months

English - Numbers 1-10, 100, 1000
one two three four five six seven eight nine ten
one hundred
a thousand

Welsh - Numbers
un dau Tri pedwar pump chwech saith wyth naw deg
cant
mil

English - Weekdays and Weekends
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Saturday Sunday
weekend
weekends
open
closed

Welsh - Weekdays and Weekends
Yn ystod yr wythnos ac ar benwythnosau
Llun Mawrth Mercher Iau Gwener
Dydd Sul Dydd Sadwrn
penwythnos
penwythnosau
agored
ar gau

yn - in
yr - the

Months
January February March
April May June
July August September
October November December

Misoedd
Ionawr Chwefror Mawrth
Ebrill Mai Mehefin
Gorffennaf Awst Medi
Hydref Tachwedd Rhagfyr

How do you remember the months in Welsh?
Memory Aids For Months In Welsh

January
Ionawr looks and sound like January. I and J are similar tall letters and close together, adjacent, in the alphabet, I J.

February
- the Welsh word has an F. The Welsh has r o r like r - u r (y).

March
in English looks like the same letters  in Welsh MA.R.H Just stick in w and end in TH instead of CH.

April
E - brill - in Welsh sounds like a - April in English.

May
Mai in Welsh is the same sound and appearance as May in English. I and Y are interchangeable in many languages.

June
ends in N, as does Mehefin.

July
= gorgeous fruit month, FF, 'Cor - cannot get enough!" Gor - ff e n n a f.

August
A w s t = August . Both start with A, sound AW, and end with ST.

September
Medi is not the middle of the summer but the end, September.

October
H y d r e f - High trees, leaves drift (d r e f) down in autumn or as the Americans say, the Fall  , the word Fall ends in F but Hydref ends in F.

November is Tachwedd (tacky cheap wedding in November when price is low, summer gone and just before the busy, pricey Xmas season.

December
Rhagfyr -  Running R.AGged shopping For holidays and new YeaR.

English Open/Closed
Closed Christmas
and
New Year's Day

Welsh Open/Closed
Ar gau Nadolig
ac
Dydd Calan

I typed the English into my blog first, copied it into Google translate, then copied the Welsh.

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, language teacher.


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