Lesson 14 of the Cornish language audio-course “Desky Kernôwek Bew - Learning Colloquial Cornish”.

Descas Peswardhek 14 Lesson Fourteen

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Geryow - Words:

aval {m.sg.n.} - (an) apple.

bara {m.sg.n.} - bread.

boos {m.sg.n.} - food.

debry {vb.n.}, dybry - to eat/eating.

dhen {1pl.prp.prn.}, dhyn - to us.

eus {vb.3sg.pres.loc.interrog. < bos ‘to be/being’} - is there?. (location)

fowt {m.sg.n.} - want, lack, need.

gorama, gora vy (vb.1sg.pres. < goffos, godhvos “to know/knowing”), gonn - I know (how to).

gwir {adj.} - true.

gwrewgh {vb.2pl.pres.-fut. < gwil, gul ‘to do/doing’} - you do; you are going to; you are going to do.

kig {m.sg.n.} - meat.

losow {f.pl.n.} - vegetables.

perna {vb.n.} - to buy/buying.

Lavarow - Phrases:

Na orama. - Ny wonn. - I don’t know.

Ma fowt dhebm. - I need to get.

Ma fowt dhen. - We need to get.

Eus fowt dhen? - Do we need to get?

Pandr’eus fowt dhewgh? - What do you need to get?

pur wir - really.

Patrons - Structures:

wrewgh whei?, a wrewgh whi? - do you(pl.)?; shall you(pl.) do?; are you(pl.) going to (do)?

pandr’wrewgh whei? - what do you?, what are you going to?, what are we going to do?

pandr’wren nei? - what do we?, what are we going to?, what are we going to do?

pandr’eus? - what is there?

eus ... dhewgh? - have you got?

eus ... dhen? - have we got?

ma ... dhen. - we’ve got.

eus ... dhebm? - have I got?

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