Useful Welsh

How to order a coffee in Welsh

Useful café phrases, pronunciation and simple ways to order naturally.

5 min

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Ordering something is one of the easiest places to start using Welsh in public, because the script barely changes.

The core pattern

Ga i… plis? means May I have… please? Slot in coffi, te, dŵr or cacen and you have a complete, polite order.

Diolch (thanks), diolch yn fawr (thanks very much), and dyna'r cyfan (that's everything) round the exchange off neatly.

Native-speaker recordings coming soon.

This is exactly what Lesson 1 covers.

Start a conversation in Welsh. Shwmae, Bore da and Ti'n iawn? — the greetings you'll hear, and actually be able to use, all over Wales.

When to use each form of “you” and why the difference matters.