#conditional tense

[meddwlyngymraeg]

Grammar - conjugations

Just trying to remember a couple of conjugations that sound close together that I sometimes mix up.

One is the future form of gwneud:

Gwneud - to make/do//auxiliary verb

Gwna(f) i - I will (do/make) Gwnei di - you will [sing., informal] Gwnaiff e/hi/etc. - He/she/it/etc. will Gwnawn ni - we will Gwnewch chi - you will [pl./sing formal] Gwnân nhw - they will

In a pattern repeated across a few other forms, the negative and interrogative forms have a soft mutation on the first letter g, dropping it.

So ‘Will you...?’ becomes ‘Wnei di...?’, and ‘No, I won't...’ becomes ‘Na wnaf, wna i ddim...’

(The f at the end of wna is optional, there are a number of patterns where it may stay or be dropped entirely. Adre(f) -> home, bydda(f) -> I will (plain old future of 'bod').)

Wnei di'r gwely? Will you make the bed? Wna i ddim y darlun. I will not make the painting. Na wnân, wnân nhw ddim byd heddiw. No, they will not do anything today. Gwna i bopeth yn iawn. I will make everything okay.

Another is the conjugation of cael asking for permission

Cael - to get, obtain, be allowed to do/have something. (It's a versatile verb).

In the present tense, in non-literary Welsh, you would just use the auxiliary 'bod' as per usual, ‘dwi'n cael’, ‘rwyt ti'n cael’, etc. In using its future and conditional tenses, it amounts specifically to the connotation of asking and receiving permission. May I go? Can he stay? Will we be allowed to bring our own water bottles? Could I have one?

Future

Ca(f) i - I will/can get/have/am allowed/ Cei di - You ... [singular, informal] Ceith (N)/Caiff (S) e/hi/ac ati - He/she/it/etc. ... [3rd person sing.] Cawn ni - We ... Cewch chi - You [formal/plural] Cân nhw - They ...

*N/S are northern and south Walian dialect variants, but don't take anything as too set in stone. I'm not the authority on it, anyway.

Conditional

Cawn i - I could ... Caet ti - You [sing, informal] could Câi fe/hi/rhywun - [3rd person] could Caen ni - We could Caech chi - You [plural/formal] could Caen nhw - They could

The 'c' softens to 'g' when used in the interrogative, but the negative gets an aspirate mutation: 'c' -> 'ch'

Ga i fynd? May I go? Châi fe ddim aros. He could not wait. (Conditional, in the sense of 'there is no way that he could wait', rather than past tense, which would be 'chafodd e ddim aros'. Maybe the next sentence is a clearer example) Cawn i aros hwyr os caet ti gollwng fi adre yn dy gar. I could stay late if you could drop me in your car. Gawn ni ddod â'n poteli dwr ein hunain? Will we be allowed to bring our own water bottles? Cei, cei di un. Yes, you may have one. Na chaiff, chaiff hi ddim tocynnau i'r cyngerdd mor hwyr. No, she cannot/will not be able to get tickets to the concert this late.

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[oidheadh-con-culainn]

favourite Irish phrase I've learned from reading books is "beidh ár bport seinnte" (or tá, depending on how hypothetical the situation is). our tune is played, lads. it's over.

[compacflt]

can i just say that I'm haunted by the image of Ice wearing "one of Mavericks cheapest rolexes". One because of the mental immage of Maverick being the kind of men who not only owns multiple watches but also Rolex, which is absolutely delightful, because oh the quiet vanity of that. And two because of the implied and groundbreaking (to me) domesticity (and defiance of the not talking/acknowledging the thing between the 2 of them) of wearing another person watch. I'm screaming into the void about your brilliance. So I need to ask, do they do that on purpose (before the mission) in a sort if roundabout way of acknowledging each other presence in their life? What would Mav wear that belongs to Ice (apart from that USNA ring eheh)?

pilots/sailors/doctors etc who do high-level specialized work with their hands tend to really be Watch Guys. and “cheap” rolexes (sub $7k ish) are actually pretty affordable if you’re making >$150k a year and want to treat yourself every fifth christmas or something. source: know several sailors & doctors. ALSO the watch ice is wearing in his famous gay plane photoshoot is actually a rolex. So theres some evidence ice at least is (annoying, ostentatious, bad with money, and) a Watch Guy. Maverick’s also wearing a kickass chronograph in TGM so i think he’s also probably a Watch Guy. also… you know, status symbol, honor, et cetera et cetera…

they probably wear each other’s socks because in-regs socks all look the same and they’re both men so who cares. i also hc that they’ve always worn the same size in shirts so each other’s t-shirts are also free game. and was very confusing at the start of their relationship when trying to figure out whose shirt was whose after a midnight rendezvous. lots of accidental shirt mixups. and, yeah, each other’s watches, because most people only see the status and don’t see the detail, and most people aren’t around both ice and mav enough to recognize that “omg last month adm kazansky was wearing the same omega chronometer capt mitchell is wearing today!! theyre totally together!!!” so if ice buys a new watch and maverick salivates over it, sure he can borrow it, whatever. and i think there’s a scene in wwgattai when maverick wears ice’s pj pants hold up lemme find it

“in bare feet.” now wtf does that mean. that could use a rewrite.

ice also wears mavericks leather jacket when they’re on their baseball date in debriefing. at some point when you live with someone long enough your stuff becomes their stuff which was the point of this graf

thinking about it… trying to decide if they’d wear each other’s cologne. that seems like a little much. no i don’t think so.

[awesomehoggirl]

quit all kinds of nicotine cold turkey yesterday then immediately had a four hour car journey today. i already feel fucking insane so there may be some Posts but this is the best ive done so far and i am kind of already proud

[heich0e]

am i rly going to go back to a fic i havent updated since december of 2021 and edit it into present tense just so that finishing the last chapter doesn't feel like such a drag? maybe

[whump-queen]

any time something goes wrong, any time whumper wants to hurt someone that they don’t have access to, they hurt whumpee instead— taking all their anger out on them, making them beg and apologize for whatever that other person did that pissed whumper off.

[vro0m]

Now more than ever I think EVERY f1 fan needs to just eat pasta😭 the takes I’m seeing after just 3 races in a new car?😭 the contract is done! There’s nothing anybody can do about it. I wish one of the parties involved would just come out and say we’ve made our decision! Deal with it!😭

I know it's not what you came here for, but I'm gonna highjack your ask to express something tangentially related.

Because I think it's too early to say this season is a failure for Mercedes and/or Lewis, I find myself constantly denying people who send me asks to claim that it already is.

I don't think I've made it clear enough before despite my attempts, so once and for all : I'm also not saying it is NOT gonna be a failure. I'm just saying it's too early to say. It might be a failure. The anons would still have been wrong to call it so early even if it ends up being a failure, but it might very well be a failure. The car might be bad to the end, Lewis might never gel with the ground effect era, it might not get better at Ferrari, etc.

My real point is : even if it turns out to be true, it's not the end of the world.

Yall are getting so very anxious about things you have no control over. Sit back, accept it, watch it unfold, there's nothing you can do, and if it doesn't pan out the way you would have wanted it to, you'll survive anyway. Tbh it applies to all areas of your life but this one? This one is literally just F1.

[goldensunset]

‘my lord n is a kind and excellent person who understands the hearts of pokémon. but conversely, perhaps his ability to understand the hearts and feelings of people is not developed enough. but… even that was part of the perfection of ghetsis’ plan.’ SHUT UUUUP I SWEAR!!!!

[unbearable-lightness-of-ink]

k babes reblog and tell me about the books on your nightstand (or wherever you stack books by your bed if you don't have a nightstand) what are they why are they there etc

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[kummatty]

something of an iconic photo, framed in several households for some reason lol im on the right

[iamnotyourbabe]

really mad i have to start manually tensing my abs again. oh well,

[outfoxt]

fuck you conditional tenses fuck you conditional tenses fuck you conditional tenses

[princess-of-purple-prose]

Listeners, I don’t love what’s happening here.

AHAHA. SAME HERE, CECIL, WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT

[runcible-spoons]

guyyssss it turns out that writing in your academic second language when you're un-fluent because you're not actually taking language classes to learn it anymore is HARD!