Episode 49: Desky Kernôwek Bew- Learning Colloquial Cornish: 14a Descas 14 - Lesson 14

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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