Learn Late Cornish Bit by Bit answers to test your progress 2

Answers to Exercise 2a

1 There is more bread on the table.

2 There aren’t any apples (at all) in the tree.

3 There were five women.              

4 Give me more cheese and a bit of bread.

5 She is eating bread with honey.

6 There was an apple in my pocket.

7 I ate bread without butter.

8 Was his cat beautiful?

9 She saw her cat.

10 There wasn’t (any) butter on the bread.

Answers to Exercise 2b

1 O hager?

2 Era mel?

3 Ev a welas cath[1].

4 Ma hei (owth) eva te heb leth.

5 Thera deg den.

6 Me a dheuth tre de.

7 Ro dhebm aval.

8 Ev a sedhas war an bord,

9 saw nag era tesen (veth)

10 ha nag era te (veth).

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[1] The <th> at end of words such as <cath>, <dheuth>, etc. is “unvoiced”. It is pronounced like the [th] in English [moth], [pith], etc.