At Home With Cornish 25

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, haughty = howtin

 

sleepy, dozy = còscüs

 

sneezy = striwüs

 

slow = syger

 

surprised = sowdhanys

 

worried = troblys

 

Thew hei …

Thew anjei …

Ev ew … 

Hei ew … 

Anjei ew … 

An bulhorn ew …

An gullys ew … 

 

"An" is what we call the definite article, "the" in English.

It makes some words shape-shift or mutate (something for another lesson!)

e.g. "cath" a cat becomes "an gath" the cat

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