Grammar cheatsheets
Whilst CMC isn’t really attempting to teach anyone Welsh grammar, we have put together in the course of our own studies some ‘cheat sheets’ which have helped us learn certain grammatical points. You can either print the html page as your reference, or download a text file to customise to your own needs.
note: whenever a verbnoun or pronoun is conjugated, the following sequence is used – I, you, he, she, we, you, they. There is no ‘it’ so use instead ‘he’ or ‘she’, whichever corresponds to the gender of the thing you’re discussing (use ‘he’ if in doubt).
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Hi,
My daughter just named her daughter Carys. We thought it rhymed with Paris. I saw somewhere that it is KAris but I still am not understanding the inflection. Is the “KA” pronounced KAY? Can you give me something it rhymes with to make it more understandable.
I appreciate your help.
Thanks,
Dwyn
Yes, it rhyme with Paris if you say Paris like an Anglophone rather than a Francophone! So it is KA-riss, rather than Kar-EEE.
A in Welsh is always short like CAT, R is trilled or rolled slightly, a final Y is an EE, and S is always soft like SIT, never a Z sound. Hope that helps.
Ok, let me see if I have this right. Please bear with me because I have limited knowledge of the Welsh language even though my mom’s side of the family is Welsh. I would pronounce Carys like “KA reece” not “Care iss”. Am I saying this correctly? It is the name that I really like for a girl, but I don’t want to be going around pronouncing it incorrectly.
The second syllable of the word is shorter, so it should sound ‘KA-riss’.