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cael
cael
See also: cáel
Welsh
Alternative forms
- caffael, caffel
Verb
cael (irregular)
- to get, receive, have
- Mi gaf i Sbaeneg nesaf.
- I have Spanish next.
- cael brecwast ― to have breakfast
- Mi gaf i Sbaeneg nesaf.
- (colloquial) to get to, be allowed to, may (with a verbal noun)
- Gawn ni weld y ffilm hwyr heno?
- Do we get to see the late film tonight?
- Gawn ni weld y ffilm hwyr heno?
- (colloquial) used with a possessive determiner (agreeing with the subject) and a verbal noun to form a construction with passive meaning
- Gaeth Terry ei tharo gan bêl eira.
- Terry got hit by a snowball (literally, Terry got her hitting by a snowball).
- Mae’r tŷ yn cael ei godi.
- The house is being built (literally, The house is getting its building).
- Gaeth Terry ei tharo gan bêl eira.
Conjugation
Conjugation
| Literary forms | singular | plural | impersonal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| present/future | caf | cei | caiff | cawn | cewch | cânt | ceir |
| imperfect/conditional | cawn | cait, caet | câi | caem | caech | caent | ceid |
| preterite | cefais, ces | cefaist, cest | cafodd, cas, cafas (obsolete), cadd (poetic) |
cawsom | cawsoch | cawsant | cafwyd, caed, cad |
| pluperfect | cawswn | cawsit | cawsai | cawsem | cawsech | cawsent | cawsid |
| present subjunctive | caffwyf | ceffych | caffo | caffom | caffoch | caffont | caffer |
| imperfect subjunctive | caffwn, cawn | caffit, cait | caffai, câi | caffem, caem | caffech, caech | caffent, caent | ceffid |
| imperative | — | ca | caffed, caed | cawn | cewch | caffent, caent | caffer, caer |
| verbal noun | cael, caffael, caffel | ||||||
| verbal adjectives | caffaeledig caffaeladwy |
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| Inflected colloquial forms | singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | first | second | third | |
| preterite | ces i | cest ti | caeth o/e/hi cafodd o/e/hi |
caethon ni cafon ni cawson ni |
caethoch chi cafoch chi cawsoch chi |
caethon nhw cafon nhw cawson nhw |
| future | ca i | cei di | ceith o/e/hi caiff e/hi |
cawn ni cewn ni |
cewch chi | cân nhw |
| conditional | cawn i celwn i |
caet ti celet ti |
câi fo/fe/hi celai fe/hi |
caen ni celen ni |
caech chi celech chi |
caen nhw celen nhw |
| imperative | — | cei cymer |
— | — | cewch cymerwch |
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| Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh. | ||||||
Derived terms
- cael i
Mutation
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| cael | gael | nghael | chael |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
References
- “cael” in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru.