cadw

Welsh

cadw (first-person singular present cadwaf)

Conjugation (literary)

	singular			plural			impersonal
	first	second	third	first	second	third	impersonal
present indicative/future	cadwaf	cedwi	ceidw	cadwn	cedwch	cadwant	cedwir
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/conditional	cadwn	cadwit	cadwai	cadwem	cadwech	cadwent	cedwid
preterite	cedwais	cedwaist	cadwodd	cadwasom	cadwasoch	cadwasant	cadwyd
pluperfect	cadwaswn	cadwasit	cadwasai	cadwasem	cadwasech	cadwasent	cadwasid, cadwesid
present subjunctive	cadwyf	cedwych	cadwo	cadwom	cadwoch	cadwont	cadwer
imperative	—	cadw, cadwa	cadwed	cadwn	cedwch	cadwent	cadwer
verbal noun	cadw
verbal adjectives	cadwedig cadwadwy

Conjugation (colloquial)

Inflected colloquial forms	singular			plural
Inflected colloquial forms	first	second	third	first	second	third
future	cadwa i, cadwaf i	cadwi di	cadwith o/e/hi, cadwiff e/hi	cadwn ni	cadwch chi	cadwan nhw
conditional	cadwn i, cadwswn i	cadwet ti, cadwset ti	cadwai fo/fe/hi, cadwsai fo/fe/hi	cadwen ni, cadwsen ni	cadwech chi, cadwsech chi	cadwen nhw, cadwsen nhw
preterite	cadwais i, cadwes i	cadwaist ti, cadwest ti	cadwodd o/e/hi	cadwon ni	cadwoch chi	cadwon nhw
imperative	—	cadwa	—	—	cadwch	—
Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.

cadw draw (“to keep away”)
cadw-mi-gei (“money box”)
cadwraeth (“conservation”)
ceidwad (“keeper”)
gwarchod (“to guard”)
cadw draenog yn boced un (“to be tightfisted, mean with money”, literally “to keep a hedgehog in one's pocket”)

Mutated forms of *cadw*
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
cadw	gadw	nghadw	chadw

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