Some Welsh phrases I've learned from my new book about Wynne Evans.

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The first phrase of interest from the book is:- pan o'n i'n ifanc This phrase means in English:- When I was young So I know that in that section of the book he's talking about when he was young. I don't know what the rest of the sentence means which includes this phrase, but there you go! Here's another interesting phrase from the book:- ddeng mlynedd yn henach na This phrase means in English:- Ten years older than I love the way the Welsh phrase seems to go on forever, but then the English equivalent is so much shorter! The context here is that he has a brother, Huw, who is ten years older than him. He also has another brother, Mark, who is ddwy flynedd a hanner = two and a half years older than him. Now, there are some mutations here. In the first phrase we have mlynedd and in the second phrase we have flynedd. These are both the same word, but one of them is mutated. I don't know which one is the mutation! I presume this is the word for years as it's the only word that is repeated in both phrases. The other mutation is ddwy which I presume is the word for two. In the text of the book it is written as here. But at the bottom, where it lists some of the Welsh words and phrases and their English translations, it's written as dwy. So the mutation is the added d. I hope you enjoyed your Welsh lesson for today.