edifaru

Welsh

Alternative forms

• (colloquial) difaru

Etymology

From edifar (“regrettable; repentant”) +‎ -u, from Proto-Celtic *ad-dī-mar-, corresponding to the prefixes ad-, di- and a final element derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (“to remember”).

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /(ˌ)ɛdɪˈvarɨ̞/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /(ˌ)ɛdɪˈva(ː)ri/
• Rhymes: -varɨ̞

Verb

edifaru (first-person singular present edifaraf)

1. to regret, to be sorry

Conjugation

Conjugation (colloquial)

inflected colloquial forms	singular			plural
	first	second	third	first	second	third
future	edifara i, edifaraf i	edifari di	edifarith o/e/hi, edifariff e/hi	edifarwn ni	edifarwch chi	edifaran nhw
conditional	edifarwn i, edifarswn i	edifaret ti, edifarset ti	edifarai fo/fe/hi, edifarsai fo/fe/hi	edifaren ni, edifarsen ni	edifarech chi, edifarsech chi	edifaren nhw, edifarsen nhw
preterite	edifarais i, edifares i	edifaraist ti, edifarest ti	edifarodd o/e/hi	edifaron ni	edifaroch chi	edifaron nhw
imperative	—	edifara	—	—	edifarwch	—

Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.

Related terms

• edifeirwch m (“regret”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of edifaru

radical	soft	nasal	h-prothesis
edifaru	unchanged	unchanged	hedifaru

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