2022 Day 60

 2022 Dedh Trei Ügens

De Meurth, kensa mis Meurth
Tuesday, 1st March

Na veu hedhyw jorna esy ha'n awel a veu hager. Ew hebma an kensa dedh gwenton? Na vedh bes teyr seythen terebo keheja dedh ha nos. 

Degol Davydh lôwen! Gormenadow dh'agan cowetha en Kembra. 

Otta tabm descans nowydh.

Today was not an easy day and the weather was horrible. Is this the first spring day? It will only be three weeks to the Equinox. 

Happy St David's Day! Greetings to our friends in Wales.

Here's a bit of a new lesson.

Building up our Cornish language. Part 9a

Cressya emann agan tavas Kernôwek. Radn 9a

We have had a good look at bos descriptive.

Now it is time to have a look at bos locative.

Here is the full paradigm of the present tense of bos locative.

(It is more complicated than bos descriptive):

1 sg: erom, eroma, era vy (SWFM esov vy)

2 sg: es ta, era chy (SWFM esos ta)

3 sg: ema, ma, (SWFM yma)

         eus [eːz]

    m (e)ma ev, (e)ma va, (SWFM yma ev)

         üjy ev, üjy va (SWFM usi ev)

      f (e)ma hei, (SWFM yma hi)

         üjy hei (SWFM usi hi)

1 pl: eron, era nei (SWFM eson ni)

2 pl: erowgh, erow, ero whei (SWFM esowgh hwi)

3 pl: emons, mons, ma anjei, (SWFM ymons i)

        üjons, üjon jei (SWFM usons i)

It looks daunting at first but we can ease our way into it with a little word

ma or ema (SWFM yma). This is the third person.

On its own, ma means there is or there are (in a locative context).

We can use this with any of our previous combinations of nouns and adjectives, e.g.

Ma cath wydn òbma. There is a white cat here.

Ma kei dû ena. There is a black dog there.

Ma avalow glas e'n wedhen. There are green apples in the tree.

The question form to this impersonal part of the verb is eus, e.g.

Eus best ena? Is there an animal there?

Pandr'eus òbma? What is there here?

Eus medhek e'n chei? Is there a doctor in the house?

Eus is never used with the definite article.

(If you want to ask about THE doctor, you must use üjy.

Üjy an medhek òbma whath? Is the doctor here yet?)

The negative form to this impersonal part of the verb 

is nag eus, e.g.

Nag eus best veth. There isn't any animal at all.

A well-known rhyme begins

"Eus keus? Eus po nag eus?"

Is there any cheese? Is there or isn't there?

We can build up a sentence.

Notice soft mutation of an adjective after a feminine noun.

Notice soft mutation of a feminine noun after the definite article.

Ma aval.  

Ma aval glas. There is a green apple.

Ma aval glas en gwedhen. There is a green apple in a tree.

Ma aval glas en gwedhen las. There is a green apple in a green tree.

Ma prev bian e'n aval glas e'n wedhen las. There is a little worm in the green apple in the green tree.