dweud

Welsh

dweud (first-person singular present dywedaf or dwedaf)

to say
Synonyms: ebe, ebra, meddai
to tell (+ wrth)
Dw i wedi dweud wrth yr athro.
I have told the teacher

Conjugation (literary)

	singular			plural			impersonal
	first	second	third	first	second	third	impersonal
present indicative/future	dywedaf	dywedi	dywed	dywedwn	dywedwch	dywedant	dywedir
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/ conditional	dywedwn	dywedit	dywedai	dywedem	dywedech	dywedent	dywedid
preterite	dywedais	dywedaist	dywedodd	dywedasom	dywedasoch	dywedasant	dywedwyd
pluperfect	dywedaswn	dywedasit	dywedasai	dywedasem	dywedasech	dywedasent	dywedasid, dywedesid
present subjunctive	dywedwyf	dywedych	dywedo	dywedom	dywedoch	dywedont	dyweder
imperative	—	dywed, dyweda	dyweded	dywedwn	dywedwch	dywedent	dyweder
verbal noun	dweud
verbal adjectives	dywededig dywedadwy

Conjugation (colloquial)

Inflected colloquial forms	singular			plural
Inflected colloquial forms	first	second	third	first	second	third
future	dweda i, dwedaf i	dwedi di	dwedith o/e/hi, dwediff e/hi	dwedwn ni	dwedwch chi	dwedan nhw
conditional	dwedwn i, dwedswn i	dwedet ti, dwedset ti	dwedai fo/fe/hi, dwedsai fo/fe/hi	dweden ni, dwedsen ni	dwedech chi, dwedsech chi	dweden nhw, dwedsen nhw
preterite	dwedais i, dwedes i	dwedaist ti, dwedest ti	dwedodd o/e/hi	dwedon ni	dwedoch chi	dwedon nhw
imperative	—	dweda	—	—	dwedwch	—
Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.

Mutated forms of *dweud*
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
dweud	ddweud	nweud	unchanged

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

R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “dweud”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 418-9