verbs Flashcards
To accept
derbyn
To allow
caniatáu
To arrange
trefnu
To arrive
cyrraedd
To ask
gofyn i someone or holi someone
To answer
ymateb (‘ateb’ is the noun)
To be
bod
To believe
coelio – hyper formal and mostly in fixed phrases! ‘Credu’ is better.
To borrow
cael benthyg or benthyca
To break
torri, dryllio
To brush hair
brwsio gwallt
To comb hair
cribo gwallt
To bath/bathe
baddo (‘to bathe’, usually transitive), ymolchi (‘to wash onesself’)
To brush teeth
brwsio danedd
To buy
prynu
To call/phone
ffonio, galw (call)
To be able to/can
gallu, medru
To cancel
canslo
To change
newid
To choose/pick
dewis
To clean
glanháu
To come
dod
To complain
achwyn or cwyno
To cook
coginio
To cough
pesychu – ‘peswch’ is ‘a cough
To count
rhifo
To create
creu
To cut
cwtogi, torri, cyto, cwtio
To decide
penderfynu
To do
gwneud
To draw
tynnu
To dance
dawnsio
To dream
breuddwydio
To drink
yfed
To drive
gyrru
To drop
cwympo, gollwng
To earn (money etc)
ennill
To eat
bwyta
To email
anfon e–bost (send an email)
To explain
egluro, esbonio
To fall
cwympo, syrthio
To feel
teimlo
To fill
llenwi, llanw
To find
ffeindio, dod o hyd i
To find out
darganfod, ffeindio allan
To finish
cwpla
To fit
addasu
To fix
trwsio (repair), gosod (put in place)
To forget
anghofio
To give
rhoi (something) i (someone)
To get
Cael
To go to bed
mynd i’r gwely
To get up
codi
To get in/out, on/off
All are ‘dod/mynd i mewn i’ and ‘dod/mynd allan o’.
To go
mynd
To hear
clywed
To help
helpu
To hope
gobeithio
To keep
cadw (rhag)
To kiss
cusanu
To know
gwybod
To laugh
chwerthin
To learn
dysgu
To leave/depart
gadael
To lift
codi
To like
hoffi
Would like
eisiau (pronounced variously as ‘isio’, ‘isie’, ‘eisio’, etc – more Northern, has different uses in the South) or moyn
To listen (to)
gwrando (ar)
To live
byw
To look (at)
edrych (ar)
To look for/search for
chwilio
To lose
colli
To love
caru
To hate
casáu
To make
gwneud
To mean
meddwl, golygu
To meet
cwrdd â, cyfarfod
To move
symud
To have to/must
rhaid, gorfod
To need
angen
To open
agor
To close/shut
cau
To organise
trefnu
To pay
talu
To pick up
pigo i fyny
To play
chwarae
To prefer
mae’n well gan… (idiomatic construction – ‘gan’ also conjugates by person)
To press
gwasgu, pwyso
To put on
Gwisgo (also means ‘to wear’)
To take off
diosg (‘get undressed’).tynnu (‘take off)’.
To post
postio
To rain
bwrw glaw
To read
darllen
To receive
derbyn
To remember
cofio
To reply
ymateb
To reserve
neilltuo
To return
dychwelyd
To run
rhedeg
To say
dweud
To see
gweld
To sell
gwerthu
To send (to)
anfon
To shave
eillio
To shower
cawodi, cael cawod
To sign
amneidio
To sing
canu
To sit
eistedd
To sleep
cysgu
To smell
aroglu. ‘Clywed’ is also used for this informally but technically means ‘hear’.
To smile
gwenu, gwenu ar (smile at)
To smoke
ysmygu, smocio
To speak
siarad
To spell
sillafu
To spend
treulio (time), gwario (money)
To stand
sefyll
To start/begin
cychwyn, dechrau
To stop
stopio
To study
astudio
To succeed
llwyddo
To take
cymryd (cymeryd is formal. cymryd is take in the sense of ‘take care’ or ‘take this’), mynd â (in the sense of ‘take this [somewhere]’)
To talk
siarad
To taste
profi
To teach
dysgu
To tell
dweud, deud
To think
meddwl
To touch
cwffwrdd
To translate
cyfieithu
To travel
teithio
To try
trio, ceisio (‘ceisio’ is more formal or Welshy–Welsh)
To turn/switch on
troi (something) ymlaen
To turn/switch off
diffodd, troi (something) i ffwrdd
To type
teipio
To understand
deall, dall, dallt
To use
defnyddio
To visit
ymweld â
To wait (for)
aros i, disgwyl i
To wake up
deffro
To walk
cerdded
To want
moyn, eisiau
To wash
golchi (‘ymolchi’ is ‘to wash onesself’)
To wash up
golchi’r llestri
To watch
gwylio
To wear
gwisgo
To work
gweithio
To worry
becso, wyrio, poeni (standard)
To write
ysgrifennu, (y)sgwennu (the latter is how you’ll often hear it pronounced)
To become
mynd yn, dod yn
To carry
cario
To cry
crio
To enter
mynd i mewn, dod i mewn (go/come in) – you’d probably ‘rhoi’ something into a computer
To enjoy
mwynhau
To exit
mynd allan, dod allan – ‘go out’, ‘come out’
To follow
dilyn
To happen
digwydd
To lock
cloi
To unplug
datgysylltu plwg
To promise
addo
To seem
ymddangos (should be used in a main clause with a subordinate following – ‘mae’n ymddangos bod…’)
To show
dangos
To suggest
awgrymu
To turn/twist
troi
To bring
dod â
To fly
fflio, hedfan
To hurt
Brifo
To put
rhoi
To text
anfon neges, tecstio
To plug in
plygio
To pull
tynnu
To push
gwthio
To practice
ymarfer
To take a photo / to photograph
cymryd llun, ffotograffio
