clwb malu cachu - days, months and years

days, months and years

days of the week

dydd	Llun	Monday
	Mawrth	Tuesday
	Mercher	Wednesday
	Iau	Thursday
	Gwener	Friday
	Sadwrn	Saturday
	Sul	Sunday

For "Monday night" substitute 'Nos (SM)' for Dydd, i.e. Nos Fawrth is Tuesday Night.

day phrases

	yesterday	today	tomorrow
	ddoe	heddiw	yfory
am	bore ddoe	bore 'ma	bore 'fory
pm	p'nawn ddoe	p'nawn 'ma	p'nawn yfory
night	neithiwr	heno	nos yfory

months of the year

mis	Ionawr	January
	Chwefror (or Mis Bach)	February
	Mawrth (must use 'mis' to differentiate from Tuesday)	March
	Ebrill	April
	Mai	May
	Mehefin	June
	Gorffennaf	July
	Awst	August
	Medi	September
	Hydref	October
	Tachwedd	November
	Rhagfyr	December

Year Phrases
1. Blwyddyn is the basic singular word for Year, e.g. 'O'n i yn yr Almaen am flwyddyn' - 'I was in Germany for a year'.

2. Blynedd is used after numbers (except 1).

one year	un flwyddyn
two years	dwy flynedd
three years	tair blynedd
four years	pedair blynedd
five years	pum mlynedd
six years	chwe blynedd
seven years	saith mlynedd
eight years	wyth mlynedd or blynedd
nine years	naw mlynedd
ten years	deng mlynedd

3. Blwydd (oed) is used after numbers to mean 'years old' with the same mutation pattern as above.

4. Blynyddoedd is the plural of blwyddyn and is restricted to cases where 'years' isn't used with a number, e.g. 'flynyddoedd yn ol' - 'years ago'.

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