ddaru
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Welsh[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Literary Welsh darfu (i) (“it happened (to)”), third-person singular preterite of darfod (“to happen”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /ˈðarɨ̞/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈða(ː)ri/
- Rhymes: -arɨ
Verb[edit]
ddaru (defective; invariable)
- (North Wales, colloquial) Auxiliary verb used to form a periphrastic preterite.
Usage notes[edit]
Exceptionally this verb form may use the unmutated first-person singular pronoun mi instead of the usual i; this is a relic of the original literary construction which would use i mi (“to me”).