2022 Day 79

2022 Dedh Trei Ügens ha Nawnjek

De Sül, ügensves mis Meurth

Sunday, 20th March

Jorna trist ewa hedhyw. Cònin agan mergh wydn a verwas. Hei a vedh trûedhek, theram ow crejy. Nag eus clowys genjy an yeyn nowodhow whath. Pan vaner cònin o an best? Brâs ha poos o va, tew y vlew ha hir y scovornow. Cònin dov o va, bes nebes coth. Ma'n ehen dhort Frynk, nag üjy va dhort Kernow. Nag ew an ehen natûral, car dre hevel dhebm.

It's a sad day today. Our granddaughter's rabbit died. She will be sad, I believe. She has not yet heard the sad news. What breed of rabbit was the animal? It was big and heavy, with thick hair and long ears. It was a tame rabbit, but quite old. The breed is from France, it is not from Cornwall. The breed is not natural, it seems to me.

Cressya emann agan tavas Kernôwek Radn 15e

Building up our Cornish language Part 15e

It is always a good thing to practise what you have learnt. Sometimes a little extra explanation helps. Yesterday we met the important word "gerlever" (SWFM gerlyver) something you will always need while you are learning.

lever book

gerlever wordbook, i.e. dictionary

ger (singular) word

geryow (plural) words

y his causes soft mutation

geryow loses initial g in soft mutation

geryow becomes eryow after y 

y eryow his words

Üjy an ger own et y erlever ev? Is the correct word in his dictionary? 

meur a lots of

a meaning of  also cause soft mutation

so meur a eryow lots of words

number always followed by singular noun

so number + ger doesn't need to use geryow

lies acts like number, so lies ger many words (many a word)

Üjy an ger own et y erlever ev? Is the correct word in his dictionary? 

Here's some more practice of bos and pronouns. 

Remember that the beginning of a sentence carries

more  emphasis than the end. 

Some sentences using bos descriptive: 

Piw ew hebma? Who is this? 

Den ew ev. He is a man. 

Maw ew ev. He is a boy. (more stress on “he”)

Maw ewa. He is a boy. 

Maw ew. It’s a boy. (least stress on “he”) 

Thew ev den. He is a man. 

Thew ev maw. He is a boy. 

Ev ew den. He is a man. 

Ev ew den yonk. He is a young man. 

Ew ev den coth? Is he an old man? 

Ewa den coth? Is it an old man? 

Ew coth an den? Is the man old? 

Piw ew holma? Who is this? 

Benyn goth ew hei. She is an old woman. 

Ew hei benyn goth? Is she an old woman?

Thew hei benyn goth. She is an old woman.

Eth ew hei benyn goth. (SWFM Yth yw hi benyn goth.)

Some sentences using bos locative:

Üjy an venyn ow redya? Is the woman reading?

Ma hei ow redya. She is reading. 

Ma hei en leverva. She is in a library. 

Ma’n venyn ow redya en leverva.  

The woman is reading in a library. 

Üjy an venyn ow redya et hy leverva hei?

Is the woman reading in HER library? 

Eus benyn ow redya e’n leverva? 

Is there a woman reading in the library?

en in (SWFM yn) in a 

e’n in the 

et hy in her  

Den ew ev. He is a man. 

Ma va ow redya lever. He is reading a book.

Ma va ow redya y lever ev. He is reading HIS book.