Example sentences, explained word by word

A flashcard shows you a word and its translation. But Welsh words change: cath can be gath, chath or nghath depending on what comes before it. Example sentences show each word from your course at work, and the breakdown shows you why it looks the way it does.

Getting sentences for your words

1. Open a deck and go to its Sentences tab.
2. Press Generate sentences. Choose one, two or three sentences per word, and a style:
   • Everyday sentences: natural sentences at your level.
   • Short and simple: three to six easy words, and a noun's gender shows. Good when the words are new, or you're near the start of your course.
3. If you like, say what you'd like to practise (see below). Leave it blank for a mix.
4. The sentences are written for the level and dialect set on your project (Mynediad, Sylfaen, Canolradd, Uwch or Gloywi, and North or South Wales), so they use the Welsh you're being taught.

Writing them takes a minute or two, and a bar shows how far it's got. You don't need to wait: leave the page, and the deck shows Writing sentences… on your project page, then ✓ Sentences ready.

Want more? Press Generate more sentences. It asks which words: just the ones without sentences yet (handy after adding new words, and the tab tells you when some have none), or every word, adding to the sentences already there. To add one sentence for a single word, use + Add sentence under that word.

Choosing what to practise

The box Anything you'd like to practise? steers every sentence towards one thing. The AI writes what you ask for, and won't always go further on its own, so give it the topic, then the exact forms you want included:

• Too vague: "the past tense"
• Better: "the short past of mynd, including es i, aethon ni and questions like Est ti…?"
• If a word changes its form, list the forms, and add "for all persons singular and plural" to get them all.
• Want questions or negatives? Say so.

The ? beside the box has these tips whenever you need them.

Fill it in from a photo of your page. Under the box, choose Fill this in from a photo of your page. On a computer, copy a screenshot of the page and paste it (⌘ V on a Mac, Ctrl V on Windows), or choose a file. On a phone, take a photo or pick one. The page is read and the box filled in with its topic and exact forms, spelled the way your course spells them. Check it, change anything you like, then generate. A page that only names its topics, such as a unit's aims, works too: you'll get the topics, and the page with the table gives you the exact forms.

Each request gets a short label, like "Short future", so you can tell your sentences apart and practise one topic at a time.

Reading them

• The word you're practising is highlighted, in the form it takes in that sentence, mutations and all.
• The English sits underneath, with the sentence's labels: its topic, and Short for a short and simple one.
• Tap a sentence (or Details ›) to see its notes, such as which mutation is happening.
• When a deck has sentences on more than one topic, tap a topic at the top of the list to see just those.
• Each word's heading shows whether it's masculine or feminine, where your course gave it.

Explain: the word-by-word breakdown

Inside a sentence, Explain this sentence asks our AI to break it down: each part, what it means literally, and a note on the grammar: tense, mutation, word order. It takes a few seconds.

• Explanations are saved. Sentences you've already explained are marked ✓ Explained and open instantly.
• Use ‹ Previous and Next › to move through a deck's sentences without closing the window.

Practise sentences

Once a deck has sentences, Practise sentences tests you on them, the way a test does with words. Choose:

• Which topics, when the deck has more than one. If you were looking at one topic on the Sentences tab, it starts with just that one ticked.
• Which sentences: all of them, or just the short or the everyday ones.
• Which way round: English → Welsh (see the English, say it in Welsh) is the best practice for speaking, so it's where you start. Welsh → English is gentler.
• How many: 5, 10, 20, or all of them (up to 50 at a time).

Say the answer in your head, press Show answer, then rate yourself: Wrong, Hard, Good or Easy. The ones you find hard come back sooner. Unsure why a sentence is the way it is? Explain this sentence is right there on the answer. You can stop whenever you like: what you've rated is saved.

On a computer, Space shows the answer and 1 to 4 rate it.

After a drill or test

The results of a drill or test offer See these words in sentences. It opens the Sentences tab with just those words, so you can see them at work straight away. Show all words brings the rest back.

If something looks wrong

AI can make mistakes. You can correct any sentence with Edit, or remove it with Delete. To delete several at once, or all of them, press Select sentences, tick the ones to go (the box by a word ticks all of its sentences), then Delete. Editing a sentence clears its explanation, since that was written for the old wording. If our AI spots a real problem while explaining a sentence (a word from the other dialect, a grammar slip, a wrong meaning), it says so at the top of the explanation, with Replace this sentence. Replacing is free.

What it costs: see How much do the AI features cost? in the FAQ.