Frommedr(“ability, skill”) +‎-u.

• (North Wales)IPA^(key): /ˈmɛdrɨ̞/
• (South Wales)IPA^(key): /ˈmɛdri/
• Rhymes:-ɛdrɨ̞

medru (first-person singular presentmedraf)(North Wales)

1. tobe able to,can

   Synonym:gallu

   Antonyms:ffaelu,methu

2. toknow how to,know, befamiliar with
   • King, Gareth (1993)Modern Welsh: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge Grammars), London and New York: Routledge,→ISBN, page202:

     Mae’r ddynes ’na’nmedru Cymraeg yn iawn.

     That womanknows Welsh well.

• In the colloquial language, the preterite of this verb is almost never used; the past tense is rendered by means of the periphrastic imperfect, e.g.oeddo’n medru(“he could, he was able to”).
• In the colloquial language, the future tense of this verb has a present-tense meaning as well, somedra i means both ‘I can’ and ‘I will be able to’.

• (be able to):gallu
• (know):nabod

• ffili(“fail, be unable, cannot”)
• methu(“fail, be unable, cannot”)

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