1. _gwrellen_, _gwren_. 1. _gwrellen_, _gwren_.
This tense is seldom used as an auxiliary, and is often confused with the subjunctive.
1. _gwrîgaf_, _gwrîga_. 1. _gwressen_, _gwreithen_.
2. _gwresses_. 2. _gwressough_, _gwreithough_.
3. _gwrîg_. 3. _gwressons_, _gwreithons_.
2. _gwrîs_, _gwrîsta_, _gwrîges 2. _gwrîgough why_. dî_.
3. _gwrîg_, _gwrîga_, _gwrês_. 3. _gwrîgans y_.
The last form seems to have completely superseded the other in late Cornish. It seems to be formed by taking the irregular third person singular as a root, and forming the rest of the persons from it on the analogy of the present tense. Where it is found—and the first person occurs as early as Jordan’s Drama of _The Creation_ (e.g. _ny wrugaf_, 1. 1662)—it is generally written without the final consonants of the verb, which, as in the imperfect tense of the verb _to be_, seem to coalesce with the initials of the pronouns. One finds the forms _rig a vee_, _rigga vee_, _rigon ny_, _rigo why_, _rig an jy_, these being preceded by adverbs, conjunctions, etc., such as _na_, _pan_, etc., which put the initial in the second state, and the _w_ being almost silent is omitted. The form _wruge_ (=_wrîga_), occurs in _Origo Mundi_, 2250, and _Passio Christi_, 930, for the first person singular, preceded by _pan_, when. The same word occurs for the third person in _O_. _M_. 423, and in the form _wrega_ in Jordan’s _Creation_, 2216. This is _wrîg_ with the added _a_ (see p. 120). A form of the third person singular of this tense, _ros_ (for _wros_, second state of _gwros_), may possibly be found in the _Ordinalia_ and in _St. Meriasek_, in the expression, _re Thu am ros_, by God who made me. But it is more probably the preterite of _ry_, to give, as it occurs also in the phrase _re’n arluth dhen beys am ros_, by the Lord who gave me to the world. _Wraze_ (=_wrês_, cf. Breton, _greaz_) occurs in Gen. iii. 7.
IV. THE PLUPERFECT OR CONDITIONAL TENSE, _I had or would have done_.
1. _gwressen_ (older form _gwrussen_). 1. _gwressen_.
1. _gwrellev_ (older 1. _gwrellon_, _gwrellen_. _gwryllyf_).
2. _gwrelly_, _gwrelles_. 2. _gwrellough_, _gwrelleugh_.
3. _gwrello_, _gwreffa_. 3. _gwrellens_, _gwrons_.
There is rather a confusion of the subjunctive and imperfect, and the two are used rather indiscriminately. The third person plural, _gwrons_, is borrowed from the imperative.