The Present Tense is the most commonly used tense in any language, so this grid should look familiar. Use the Blooket below to revise it if you need to.

Blooket - The Present Tense

The Perfect Tense is not used anywhere near as often as the others on this page, but it could be a useful one to know to talk about what you have done recently. Use the Blooket below to revise it if you need to.

Blooket - The Perfect Tense

The Irregular Past Tense is similar to those we have in English - they don't look like their original word and they don't follow the general patterns (think -ed endings in English). There are 4 of them in Welsh - "mynd", "dod", "gwneud" and "cael" (meaning "to go", "to come", "to do/to make" and "to have").

Look carefully at the first 3 grids. Notice how you use the "mynd" grid patterns but you add ‘D’ (to make "dod") or "Gwn" (to make "gwneud"):

         Es i (I went) > Des i (I came)

         Es i (I went) > Gwnes i (I did/I made)

Unfortunately, the pattern doesn't continue 100% as "cael" follows its own pattern in parts. The first two sentence structures - "Ces i" and "Cest ti" stick to the trend of the other 3, but then it does its own thing entirely. The different mutations on the "cael" forms also makes them more difficult to learn.

As long as you know the positive forms for "I", "You", "He/She", "We" and "They", you will be ok for the exams.

As for the mutations that can be found in the negative and question forms, don't worry about those too much. Communicating using this tense is sufficient, without needing to know all of the mutations to go with it. You may however see them in the speaking exam stimuli and the reading/writing tasks.

Use the Blookets below to revise it if you need to.

Blooket - The Irregular Past Tense: Mynd 

Blooket - The Irregular Past Tense: Dod

Blooket - The Irregular Past Tense: Gwneud

Blooket - The Irregular Past Tense: Cael 

The Regular Past Tense is more complicated than learning the irregular forms as you have to be able to categorise verbs and build them yourself. An explanation of how it works and a Blooket to revise it can be found below.

Blooket - The Regular Past Tense   (tbc)

When talking in the Past Tense (both types), you will need to learn how to give opinions in the Imperfect Tense as a bare minimum. The key phrases can be found in the positives column - "Roedd e'n", "Roedd hi'n", "Roedd (y) ... yn".

Use the Blookets below to revise it if you need to.

Blooket - The Imperfect Tense

You may not use all parts of the Future Tense, but when talking about what you would like to do ("Hoffwn i"), you will need to learn how to give opinions in this tense as a bare minimum. The key phrases can be found in the positives column - "Bydd e'n", "Bydd hi'n", "Bydd (y) ... yn".

Use the Blookets below to revise it if you need to.

Blooket - The Future Tense 

The most important grid in the Conditional Tense is the Hoffwn grid,  although you may sometimes use Dylwn and Gallwn for topics such as school rules, eating healthy and keeping fit.

Whereas a number of tenses have positive sentence patterns that end in " 'n" ("Rydw i'n", "Roedd hi'n" and "Byddi di'n"), only the verb Baswn shares this characteristic. All other verbs are similar to the Past Tense forms that don't use it.  

Because of this, the positive sentence patterns in the Hoffwn, Dylwn and Gallwn grids cause a Treiglad Meddal / Soft Mutation on the word that follows it, eg:

           Hoffwn i fynd   >   I would like to go

           Dylwn i fynd   >   I should go

           Gallwn i fynd   >   I could go

but    Baswn i'n mynd   >   I would go

Use the Blookets below to revise it if you need to.

Blooket - The Conditional Tense: Hoffwn

Blooket - The Conditional Tense: Baswn 

Blooket - The Conditional Tense: Dylwn 

Blooket - The Conditional Tense: Gallwn