At Home With Cornish

Lôwena dhis. Jan o vy. I hope you remember how to say " hello " and introduce yourself. Let's learn how to say more about ourselves. " o vy " means " I am ", so there are other things we can add to it. maw Maw o vy. I am a boy. Flogh o vy. I'm a child. mos Mos o vy. I am a girl. Flogh o vy. I'm a child. Trigys o vy en ... means I am living in ... or I live in  Trigys o vy en Peran Treth. I live in Perranzabuloe. Here are a few place names in Cornwall: Henlys Helston (old court) Lanseles Launcells (Seled's church site) Porth Isek Port Isaac (corn-rich-cove) Tewyn Plustry Newquay Now that you know some numbers you can answer the question: Pes bloodh os ta? How old are you? Pes means how many , and bloodh means a year of age. Here are some ways of answering, using bloodh . …. bloodh o vy. Bloodh vy ew …. Pemp bloodh  o vy.   ..?.. bloo

Let's look at numbers so that you can play games with dice. onan, dew, trei,  pajar, pemp, whegh  Of course, if you throw two dice at once, if you are playing "Shut the Box", you need to be able to add up to more, so  7 seyth  8 eth  9 naw  10 deg  11 üdnek  12 dewdhek  Here are some number combinations and what you can say.  Ha means and or plus :  Pajar ha pemp ew naw. 4 and 5 are 9  Onan ha whegh ew seyth. 1 and 6 are 7  Dew ha trei ew pemp . 2 and 3 are 5  If you win, you can triumphantly say:  My a waynyas! I won!  You need the numbers 1 to 10 if you play cards, but there are 13 cards in a suit, so there are 3 extras.  13 terdhek  Deg ha trei ew terdhek. 10 and 3 are 13  KNAVA (knave) METÊRNES (queen) METÊRN (king)                   If you want to ask "How many?" ( "lies" means "many" )  you can say "Pe lies?" (What many?).  This is sometimes shortened to "Pes?"  You can use either.  You also need "eus?"

Pandr'ew meaning "What is" is a useful beginning to a question. We started with  Pandr'ew hebma?  and  Pandr'ew an re ma?   What is this? and What are these?   You  can use  Pandr'ew  to ask  what someone likes ( or hate s ).     Pandr'ew da genes?  What do you like?    Pandr'ew cas genes?  What do you hate?     Or you can say:      Pandr'ew drog genes?  What do you dislike?     Notice that instead of  genam  (which refers to what you like yourself) we use  genes  (for what the other person likes).     And w e are using opposites when we use     drog  (bad) and  da  (good).     Pandr'ew da genes?       Da ew genam sevy wheg .   I like sweet strawberries.     Pandr'ew drog genes?     Drog ew genam trynkles trenk.   I dislike sour rhubarb.       Also ,  opposites are  wheg  (sweet)  and   trenk   or   trynk  (sour)     We can also ask a more direct question:   Ew da genes sevy?  Do you like strawberries?   Ew drog genes trynkles?  Do you dis