I’ve come across sen i and set ti in the past few challenges for if I and if you respectively. What would be the forms for hi/e, chi, nhw and ni?
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'swn i (from full form taswn i)
'set ti (from full form taset ti)
'sai hi/e (from full form tasai)
'sen ni (from full form tasen ni)
'sech chi (from full form tasech chi)
'sen nhw (from full form tasen nhw)
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Hello Stuart
the 'sen i" and 'set ti" bits are abbreviatons from “tasen i, taset ti” etc. In the North you would hear “taswn i” or 'swn i" for If I were…
The other forms are:
taswn i
taset ti
tasai fe
tasai hi
tasen ni
tasech chi
tasen nhw
If you are more interested in these forms, you could get more information in this Taswn/tasen thread.
I hope I could help you.
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Thanks.
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Just to add confusion these could also be contracted from “would” in hypothetical situations:
Baswn i
Baset ti
Basai fo/hi
Basen ni
Basech chi
Basen nhw
These were grouped together in the course at some point. I know that Dewi Pws had something like " 'sech chi’n siarad Cymraeg 'sech chi’n gwybod" on his banjo so when anyone asked him what it meant he could say “if you spoke Welsh you’d know”. 
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Also, didn’t @Iestyn mention that in SE Wales, you can get away with “…sen” for all endings, except for "…ech chi? I could be wrong.
Edit: I just tried it in my head, and it didn’t seem to flow. Tried it again and it was ok 
Here it is from the link above: “but natural southern usage keep the “e” the whole way through.” I’m not totally sure if that includes the ti and chi endings.
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It’s referring to just having “e” instead of “w” for the fi-form, e.g. “sen i” instead of “swn i” and that also the ending on the “hi/e” form sounds like “e” instead of the written “ai” in the south.
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Thanks Dee. I just thought of something. Would it be ok to just use the same ending that tends to come out after “hoff”?. Like, hoffen i, hoffet ti, hoffen/wn ni. So use that ending after (ba)s:. Sen i, sen/swn ni, etc.