Thursday, February 2, 2012

How do you say 'Six red roses' in Welsh?

I found out that rhosynnau means roses, but rosyn apparently works also (dualis ?)





Please don't use Google Translations, I did lol|||Ah, you've obviously not come across mutations in Welsh... where the first letters of words change, depending on circumstances....eg





trwyn (nose)





fy nhrwyn ( my nose)





dy drwyn (your nose)





ei drwyn (his nose)





ei thrwyn (her nose)





'Rh' can change to 'r'





Rhosyn (rose)





dy rosyn (your rose)





dau rosyn (two roses).





rhosynnau can also mutate to rosynnau





Llawer o rosynnau... many roses





So six red roses could be either ;





"Chwe rhosyn coch" or " chwech o rosynnau cochion."





Coch is one adjective that changes with whether the noun is singular or plural.





Afal coch... red apple, afalau cochion... red apples.|||chwe rhos coch|||Damn...Cedors Mul has beaten me to it again....he's right though...





Lemon...'rhos' is 'moor' in Welsh so what you've written is 'six red moors'.

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