From para (“to continue, to last”) + maethu (“to nourish, to nuture”).
paramaethu (first-person singular present paramaethaf)
As with all Welsh verbnouns, this may be used as a non-count masculine noun to express the action associated with the verbal meaning, and so in this instance is also the best translation for the English noun "permaculture".
singular | plural | impersonal | ||||||
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first | second | third | first | second | third | |||
present indicative/future | paramaethaf | paramaethi | paramaetha | paramaethwn | paramaethwch | paramaethant | paramaethir | |
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/ conditional |
paramaethwn | paramaethit | paramaethai | paramaethem | paramaethech | paramaethent | paramaethid | |
preterite | paramaethais | paramaethaist | paramaethodd | paramaethasom | paramaethasoch | paramaethasant | paramaethwyd | |
pluperfect | paramaethaswn | paramaethasit | paramaethasai | paramaethasem | paramaethasech | paramaethasent | paramaethasid, paramaethesid | |
present subjunctive | paramaethwyf | paramaethych | paramaetho | paramaethom | paramaethoch | paramaethont | paramaether | |
imperative | — | paramaetha | paramaethed | paramaethwn | paramaethwch | paramaethent | paramaether | |
verbal noun | paramaethu | |||||||
verbal adjectives | paramaethedig paramaethadwy |
Inflected colloquial forms | singular | plural | ||||
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first | second | third | first | second | third | |
future | paramaetha i, paramaethaf i | paramaethi di | paramaethith o/e/hi, paramaethiff e/hi | paramaethwn ni | paramaethwch chi | paramaethan nhw |
conditional | paramaethwn i, paramaethswn i | paramaethet ti, paramaethset ti | paramaethai fo/fe/hi, paramaethsai fo/fe/hi | paramaethen ni, paramaethsen ni | paramaethech chi, paramaethsech chi | paramaethen nhw, paramaethsen nhw |
preterite | paramaethais i, paramaethes i | paramaethaist ti, paramaethest ti | paramaethodd o/e/hi | paramaethon ni | paramaethoch chi | paramaethon nhw |
imperative | — | paramaetha | — | — | paramaethwch | — |
Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh. |
radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
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paramaethu | baramaethu | mharamaethu | pharamaethu |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.