At Home With Cornish

Can you find the right words in the list to complete the sentences in the left-hand column?   (You don't have to use them all.) Remember we can play around with the word order. "He is …" = Thew ev … or Ev ew … or …ew ev e.g. "He is happy" can be (put what's important first) Thew ev lôwen or Ev ew lôwen or Lôwen ew ev And instead of ev (he), with ew you can use hei (she) anjei (they) Peder (or any other name) an kei (or any other singular noun) an flehes (or any other plural noun)     Thew ev …   More descriptions   amused = didhanys   angry = serrys   bashful, shy = methek   bored = skithys   cheeky = tont   confused, puzzled = kemyskys   excited = inflamyes   fast = üskis   frightened, scared = ownek   greedy = cowlek   hungry = gwag   lazy = diek   proud, ha...

In our earlier lessons, we have looked at common questions and suitable answers involving ourselves. Now we are going to expand this and look at how you can build your own sentences. Let's start with sentences involving identities and descriptions. If someone asks me "Piw os ta?" (this is familiar)                               or "Piw o whei?" (this is more polite)                     meaning " Who are you?" I can answer "Tho vy Jan" meaning "I'm Jan". Or I can say " Jan o vy. "   If you want to ask who someone else is, you can say: "Piw ew ev ?" Who is he ? "Piw ew hei ?" Who is she ? "Piw ew anjei ?" Who are they ?   An answer might be: (they all mean the same, with different emphasis: He is Peter .): Pede...