Useful Welsh phrases

Mid-Wales is a Welsh language heartland and when you’re out and about, you’re bound to hear people chatting away in Welsh. Many of our guests like to try out a little Welsh so we’ve put some useful phrases together, along with a guide to pronouncing local place names! Pob lwc (Good luck)! 

The Welsh Alphabet

• C - pronounced as a K, as in English 'king' 
• CH - pronounced as in the Scottish 'loch' 
• DD - pronounced TH 
• G - pronounced as a hard G, as in English 'go' 
• LL - pronounced THL. Start to make an L sound then blow!
• F - pronounced as a V, as in English 'of' 
• FF - pronounced as an F, as in English 'off' 
• W - pronounced as an OO, as in English 'swoop' 
• Y - has two different pronunciations, depending where is appears in the word. In the penultimate syllable it's pronounce as 'U' like the English for 'bun'. In single syllable words, the Y sound varies but don't worry, your efforts to pronounce will be appreciated! 

Greetings

• ​Good morning  Bore da  (Bor-eh Dah)
• Good day Dydd da (Dith Dah)
• Good afternoon Prynhawn da (Prihnown Dah)
• Good night Nos da (Nohs Dah)
• How are you? Sut mae (Sit Mae)
• Thank you very much Diolch yn fawr (Dee-ol[ch] Uhn Vaoor)
• Thanks Diolch (Dee-ol[ch])
• Good Health! Iechyd da! (Ye[ch]id dah)
• Welcome Croeso (Kroy-so)

Outside 

• Mountain Mynydd (Muhneth)
• River Afon (Ah-von)
• Sea Môr (More)
• Woodland Coedwig (Koyd-wig)
• House Tŷ (Tih)

Food and Drink

• Bread Bara (Barra)
• Tea Te  (Tee)
• Cuppa Paned (Pan-ed)
• Sugar Siwgwr (Shoog-oor)
• Milk Llefrith ([Ll]ev-rith)