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languages, most verbs follow a regular pattern of conjugation, with separate but
regular conjugations for the different persons as well as tenses.
Table 1: Conjugation of rhedeg (to run)
Present Imperfect Past Pluperfect Subjunctive Imperfect
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Subjunctive
Imperative
rhedaf rhedwn rhedais rhedaswn rhedwyf rhedwn rhed, rheda
rhedi rhedit rhedaist rhedasit rhedych rhedit rheded
rhed, rheda rhedai rhedodd rhedasai rhedo rhedai rhedwn
rhedwn rhedem rhedasom rhedasem rhedom rhedem rhedwch
rhedwch rhedech rhedasoch rhedasech rhedoch rhedech rhedent
rhedant rhedent rhedasant rhedasent rhedont rhedent rheder
rhedir rhedid rhedwyd rhedasid rheder rhedid
As is apparent from Table 1, many of the verb forms above are far too similar for
a player to differentiate between them in a game of hangman. Coupled with the fact
that conjugated verbs seem unfamiliar outside the context of a sentence, this meant
that their inclusion would have made the game too difficult and unrewarding from a
playability perspective.
6.1.1 Mutation
The lemmatizer also allowed us to prevent the initial consonant mutation that is
a feature of Welsh words within sentences from making its way from sentences in the
corpus to words in the word list.
A word such as ci (dog) can have the following mutations:
ci nghi gi chi
For example:
Fy nghi
Dy gi
Ei chi
Eu ci
My dog
Your dog
Her dog
Their dog