sylwi
Appearance
Welsh
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]sylwi (first-person singular present sylwaf, not mutable)
- (transitive, intransitive) to observe, to notice
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation (literary)
singular | plural | impersonal | ||||||
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first | second | third | first | second | third | |||
present indicative/future | sylwaf | sylwi | sylwa | sylwn | sylwch | sylwant | sylwir | |
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/conditional | sylwn | sylwit | sylwai | sylwem | sylwech | sylwent | sylwid | |
preterite | sylwais | sylwaist | sylwodd | sylwsom | sylwsoch | sylwsant | sylwyd | |
pluperfect | sylwswn | sylwsit | sylwsai | sylwsem | sylwsech | sylwsent | sylwsid | |
present subjunctive | sylwyf | sylwych | sylwo | sylwom | sylwoch | sylwont | sylwer | |
imperative | — | sylwa | sylwed | sylwn | sylwch | sylwent | sylwer | |
verbal noun | sylwi | |||||||
verbal adjectives | sylwedig sylwadwy |
Conjugation (colloquial)
Inflected colloquial forms | singular | plural | ||||
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first | second | third | first | second | third | |
future | sylwa i, sylwaf i | sylwi di | sylwith o/e/hi, sylwiff e/hi | sylwn ni | sylwch chi | sylwan nhw |
conditional | sylwn i, sylwswn i | sylwet ti, sylwset ti | sylwai fo/fe/hi, sylwsai fo/fe/hi | sylwen ni, sylwsen ni | sylwech chi, sylwsech chi | sylwen nhw, sylwsen nhw |
preterite | sylwais i, sylwes i | sylwaist ti, sylwest ti | sylwodd o/e/hi | sylwon ni | sylwoch chi | sylwon nhw |
imperative | — | sylwa | — | — | sylwch | — |
Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh. |
Derived terms
[edit]- sylwad (“observation”)
Further reading
[edit]- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “sylwi”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies