At Home With Cornish 13

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?" meaning "are there?" 

To answer, you start with "Ma" meaning "There is" or "There are". 

Pe lies pesk eus? 

How many fish are there? 

Ma onan. There is one. 



Pes aval eus? 

How many apples are there? 

Ma whegh aval. 

There are six apples. 



Pe lies aval melyn eus? 

How many yellow apples are there? 

Ma dew aval melyn. 

There are two yellow apples. 

Ha ma dew aval rüdh ha dew aval glas. 

And there are two red apples and two green apples 


 Pes kei eus? 

How many dogs are there? 

Ma naw. 

There are nine. 

Ma naw kei. 

There are nine dogs. 

Ma naw kei dû. 

There are nine black dogs.


Here are some for you to answer:

Pe lies davas eus? 
Pes  cavach eus? 

Pes dehen rew eus?  






 







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