At Home With Cornish

Try this sentence-building game to practise some of the vocabulary you have learnt up to this point. It is rather like the game of consequences. You can think up many variations. Start with a simple verb:  Ma      There is/are Think of a subject: Ma kei.  There is a dog. Think of a colour: Ma kei gwydn. There is a white dog. Think of a number: Ma pemp kei gwydn. There are five white dogs. Think of something they might be doing: Ma pemp kei gwydn ow lebmel.     There are five white dogs jumping. or   Five white dogs are jumping. Add a definite article: Ma'n pemp kei gwydn ow lebmel.  The five white dogs are jumping. Think of somewhere they might be doing it: Ma pemp kei gwydn ow lebmel e'n lowarth. There are five white dogs jumping in the garden. or   Five white dogs are jumping in the garden. Ma'n pemp kei gwydn ow lebmel e'n lowarth.  The five white dogs are jumping in the garden. Think of an adjective to describe the place: Ma pemp kei gwydn ow lebmel e'n lowarth

Here's some shape-shifting (mutation) practice. Let's see what we can do with two feminine words: edhen bird gwedhen tree Ma edhen en gwedhen . There's a bird in a tree. Ma 'n edhen e 'n wedhen . The bird is in the tree.   To ask "What is there …?" or "What's (there) …?" you can use Pandr'eus …? Peth eus …? Pandr'eus e'n …? What is there in the …? Peth eus e'n …? What's in the …? Pandr'eus e 'n wedhen ? What is there in the tree? Peth eus e 'n wedhen ?   What's in the tree?   Ma cath e 'n wedhen . There's a cat in the tree. Ma 'n gath e 'n wedhen . The cat is in the tree. ( Possessives cause different mutations.) Ma agan cath e'n wedhen. Our cat is in the tree. Ma ow hath e'n wedhen. My cat is in the tree. Now, let's imagine this is a rather strange tree with plenty of room! Can you choose the correct word to go in the gap?