Tuesday, 25th February
Ma hogh e’n coos. There is a pig in the wood.
(SWFMm Yma hogh yn an koos.)
Eus best e’n lowarth? Is there an animal in the garden?
Eus! Yes!
Pandr’üjy an best ow kil/cül?
(SWFMm Pandr’usi an besy ow kul?)
Ma va ow qwary. It is playing.
(SWFMm Yma ev ow kwari.)
If you want to discuss what the animal is, or what it is like, rather than what it is doing, you need to switch to bos descriptive.
To ask the questions you can use Pe? Pehen? Pandr’?
Pe? (MC Py?) means Which? or What?
Expand this to Pe ehen? Or Pe sort? Or Pe kinda? And you get What kind? What sort? What breed? What variety? etc., etc.
If you shorten it to Pehen? You are asking “What (is it) like?”
Pe best ew ev? What animal is it?
(SWFMm Py best yw ev?)
Kei Jory ew. It’s George’s dog.
(SWFMm Ki Jori yw.)
Ew ev? Ewa? Is it?
Nag ew hedna kei. That is not a dog.
(SWFMm Nyns yw henna ki.)
Pehen best ew ev / ewa? What kind of animal is it?
Lowarn brâs ew ev. It is a big fox.
Ma lost brâs dhe’n lowarn.
The fox has a big tail. (There is a big tail to the fox.)
Using Ma and dhe is an indirect way of saying has, without using a verb for “to have”.
Lostek henwys ew ev. He is called the big-tailed one.
Pandr’ew hedna et aga lowarth?
What is that in their garden?
Lostek ew! It’s a fox!
Although the sentence above has a location involved it is not needing bos locative.
Pandr’üjy an lostek ow kil et aga lowarth?
What is the fox doing in their garden?
Ma va ow tebry aga yar. He’s eating their hen.
SWFm equivalents:
Pandr’usi an lostek ow kul yn aga lowarth?
Yma ev ow tybri aga yar.
Pehen ew an lostek? What is the fox like?
Brâs ha gwag ew ev. He is big and hungry.
Ew an hogh gwag, ewedh? Is the pig hungry, too?
Nag ew. No.
Nag ew an hogh gwag. The pig is not hungry.
Notice that when Ew starts the sentence, it is a question.
The negative particle Nag turns it into a negative.
Another particle is needed to make it affirmative. The particle is not itself translated as anything.
In SWFMm Yth is separate, in SWFLt Th is usually joined to the verb.
Yth yw an hogh tew. The pig is fat.
Thew an hogh tew. The pig is fat.
Without the particle:
Ew an hogh tew? Is the pig fat?
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