At Home With Cornish 12

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 hates). 

 

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 we 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 dislike rhubarb? 

 

And we can give negative answers: 

Nag ew da genam sevy. I do not like strawberries. 

Nag ew drog genam trynkles. I do not dislike rhubarb. 

 

Notice that in Cornish we put the word nag meaning not right at the beginning.  

 

Ew da genes pesk ha scòbmow? 

Do you like fish and chips? 

 


Na. Nag ew da genam pesk, bes da ew genam scobmow. 

 

I do not like fish, but I like chips. 

Ew drog genes losow? 

Do you dislike vegetables? 

 


Ea. Drog ew genam losow, bes da ew genam frût. 

 

Yes. I dislike vegetables, but I like fruit. 

And a final question: 

 

Pe liw ew da genes? 

Which colour do you like? 




 

For you to fill in your own answer: 

 

Da ew genam ------- 

 

 

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