When Kankurette Began to Learn Welsh Quiz

Answer: Chwech

'Chwech' is 'six'. 'Saith' is 'seven', 'wyth' is 'eight' and 'naw' is nine. Incidentally, numbers do not take plural forms in Welsh, so the literal translation of 'tri afal' would be 'three apple' and not 'three apples'. Pump (five), chwech and cant (a hundred) drop the final letter in front of a noun, e.g. 'chwe gregys' ('six belts').

Answer: Pel-droed

'Pêl-droed' is Welsh for 'football' (or 'soccer', if you're from the US), and Gareth Bale, Ashley Williams and Joe Allen are all Welsh footballers. 'Rygbi' is 'rugby', 'hoci iâ' is 'ice hockey', and 'tenis' is self-explanatory.

Answer: Carrots

'Moron' is Welsh for 'carrots'. As for the other choices, 'potatoes' is 'tatws' (not to be confused with 'tatw', which means 'tattoo'), 'cabbage' is 'bresych' and 'onion' is 'nionyn'. These words, incidentally, are all collective forms of the noun, rather than singulative (i.e. an individual carrot, which would be 'moronen').

Answer: Y dafad

A 'dafad' is, of course, 'the sheep'. As for the other answers, 'y ceffyl' means 'the horse', 'y crwban' means 'the tortoise', and 'y cwningen' means 'the rabbit'. When a noun begins with a vowel, 'y' changes to 'yr', e.g. 'yr aderyn' ('the bird').

Answer: Office

'Dw i'n gweithio mewn sywddfa' means 'I work in an office'. It would be 'dw i'n gweithio mewn fferm' for a farm, 'dw i'n gweithio mewn ysgol' for a school, and 'dw i'n gweithio mewn ysbyty' for a hospital. If you worked in a specific place, e.g. Superdrug, you would say, 'Dw i'n gweithio yn Superdrug' ('mewn' means 'in' when referring to somewhere more generic).

Ricky Gervais starred as David Brent in the British sitcom 'The Office'.

Answer: Mawrth

St David's Day is on 1st March (Mawrth). 'Hydref' is 'October', 'Mehefin' is 'June' and 'Chwefror' is 'February'. To wish someone a happy St David's Day, you would say, "Dydd gwyl Dewi Sant hapus."

Answer: Melyn

'Porffor' is 'purple', 'glas' is 'blue' (which might be confusing for Irish speakers, as the Irish word for 'green' is 'glas'), and 'du' is 'black'. One way of remembering that 'melyn' means 'yellow' is to think of 'mêl', which means 'honey', since honey is often yellow. 'Melyn' can also mean 'beige' and similar neutral colours. A daffodil is 'cenhinen Bedr' (literally, 'Peter's leek').

Answer: Dw i'n hoffi coffi

I picked this phrase because it always helps me remember that 'dw i'n hoffi' means 'I like'. 'Dw i'n yfed' means 'I'm drinking' or 'I drink', 'dw i'n gwneud' means 'I make' or 'I'm making', and 'dw i'n eisiau' means 'I want'.

Answer: False

'Hi' actually means 'she'. 'He' is 'e'/'fe' if you're from south Wales, or 'o'/'fo' in the north.

Answer: A pocket dictionary

The full chorus of the song is:

What the hell did you say?
Dwi'n mynd y ddysgu Cymraeg today
I think I'm losing control now
Or should I say, 'Dwi'n dechrau gwylltio nawr?'
You make me mad! (Gwyllt!) Bad! (Drwg!) Agitated!
Witch! (Gwrach!) Whore! (Putain!) Stop interrupting me!
I'll fight you back with my geriadur bach!'

Like compatriots Catatonia and the Super Furry Animals, Melys sing in a mixture of Welsh and English. The line 'dwi'n mynd y ddysgu Cymraeg' means 'I'm going to learn Welsh'. 'Dwi'n dechrau gwylltio nawr' means 'I'm starting to get angry now'. 'Un Darllenwr Lwcus' means 'one lucky reader'. Incidentally, the word for 'whore' ('putain') in Welsh is a loanword from French.