The word for 'should' in Welsh

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  1. You are hearing the phrase quite correctly, it’s ddylen i ddim. As you suspect it isn’t related to “dilyn”, but exactly where it comes from, I can’t really tell you that - I don’t know any “base” word.

  2. What’s happening here is that you move the “I shouldn’t” part into a sub-clause, and the wore introducing that negative subclause is na:
    She told me that I shouldn’t drink too much - Ddwedodd hi wrtha fi na ddylen i yfed gormod.
    Note that the ddim usually disappears, but you can leave it in.

  3. The intro song - 'Wela i efo llygad bach i'

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