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Learning the Welsh Adjectives displayed below is vital to the language. Welsh Adjectives are words that describe or modify another person or thing in the sentence.
While in English an adjective doesn’t change when the noun changes, in Welsh an adjective sometimes agrees in gender and number with the noun. For example:
a) Masculine to feminine example: Mab byr (Short son ) becomes: Merch fer (Short daughter).
As you can see from the example above, the adjective comes after the noun and also takes the feminine form.
b) Singular to plural example:
Dyma fy nghar coch (this is my red car) becomes: Dyma fy ngheir cochion (these are my red cars).
As you can see from the example above, the adjective comes after the noun and also takes the plural form.
· Please note that the plural forms of adjectives and to some extent the feminine forms are becoming obsolete.
Here are some examples:
| English Adjectives | Welsh Adjectives |
|---|---|
| adjectives | ansoddeiriau |
| a green tree | coeden gwyrdd |
| a tall building | adeilad dal |
| a very old man | ddyn hen iawn |
| the old red house | y ty hen coch |
| a very nice friend | ffrind iawn 'n glws |
Notice the structure of the Adjectives in Welsh.
Below is a list of the Adjectives, Colors, Shapes, Sizes in Welsh placed in a table. Memorizing this table will help you add very useful and important words to your Welsh vocabulary.
| English Adjectives | Welsh Adjectives |
|---|---|
| colors | lliwiau |
| black | du |
| blue | glas |
| brown | brown |
| gray | llwyd |
| green | gwyrdd |
| orange | oren |
| purple | porffor |
| red | coch |
| white | wyn |
| yellow | h |
| sizes | maint |
| big | mawr |
| deep | dwfn |
| long | hir |
| narrow | cul |
| short | byr |
| small | bach |
| tall | tal |
| thick | trwchus |
| thin | tenau |
| wide | eang |
| shapes | siapiau |
| circular | cylchlythyr |
| straight | yn syth |
| square | sgwâr |
| triangular | trionglog |
| tastes | chwaeth |
| bitter | chwerw |
| fresh | ffres |
| salty | hallt |
| sour | sur |
| spicy | sbeislyd |
| sweet | melys |
| qualities | nodweddion |
| bad | drwg |
| clean | glân |
| dark | tywyll |
| difficult | anodd |
| dirty | budr |
| dry | sych |
| easy | hawdd |
| empty | gwag |
| expensive | ddrud |
| fast | cyflym |
| foreign | tramor |
| full | llawn |
| good | da |
| hard | galed |
| heavy | trwm |
| inexpensive | rhad |
| light | golau |
| local | lleol |
| new | newydd |
| noisy | swnllyd |
| old | hen |
| powerful | pwerus |
| quiet | tawel |
| correct | gywir |
| slow | araf |
| soft | meddal |
| very | iawn |
| weak | gwan |
| wet | gwlyb |
| wrong | anghywir |
| young | ifanc |
| quantities | meintiau |
| few | ychydig |
| little | bach |
| many | llawer o |
| much | llawer |
| part | rhan |
| some | rhai |
| a few | ychydig |
| whole | gyfan |
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