arbrofi

Welsh

Etymology

From either arbrawf +‎ -i or ar- +‎ profi.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /arˈbrɔvɪ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /arˈbroːvi/, /arˈbrɔvi/

Verb

arbrofi (first-person singular present arbrofaf)

1. (transitive or intransitive) to experiment

Conjugation

Conjugation (literary)

	singular			plural			impersonal
	first	second	third	first	second	third
present indicative/future	arbrofaf	arbrofi	arbrofa	arbrofwn	arbrofwch	arbrofant	arbrofir
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/ conditional	arbrofwn	arbrofit	arbrofai	arbrofem	arbrofech	arbrofent	arbrofid
preterite	arbrofais	arbrofaist	arbrofodd	arbrofasom	arbrofasoch	arbrofasant	arbrofwyd
pluperfect	arbrofaswn	arbrofasit	arbrofasai	arbrofasem	arbrofasech	arbrofasent	arbrofasid, arbrofesid
present subjunctive	arbrofwyf	arbrofych	arbrofo	arbrofom	arbrofoch	arbrofont	arbrofer
imperative	—	arbrofa	arbrofed	arbrofwn	arbrofwch	arbrofent	arbrofer
verbal noun	arbrofi
verbal adjectives	arbrofedig arbrofadwy

Conjugation (colloquial)

Inflected colloquial forms	singular			plural
	first	second	third	first	second	third
future	arbrofa i, arbrofaf i	arbrofi di	arbrofith o/e/hi, arbrofiff e/hi	arbrofwn ni	arbrofwch chi	arbrofan nhw
conditional	arbrofwn i, arbrofswn i	arbrofet ti, arbrofset ti	arbrofai fo/fe/hi, arbrofsai fo/fe/hi	arbrofen ni, arbrofsen ni	arbrofech chi, arbrofsech chi	arbrofen nhw, arbrofsen nhw
preterite	arbrofais i, arbrofes i	arbrofaist ti, arbrofest ti	arbrofodd o/e/hi	arbrofon ni	arbrofoch chi	arbrofon nhw
imperative	—	arbrofa	—	—	arbrofwch	—
Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.

Derived terms

• arbrofiad (“experiment”, noun)
• arbrofol (“experimental”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of arbrofi

radical	soft	nasal	h-prothesis
arbrofi	unchanged	unchanged	harbrofi

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.