At Home With Cornish 38

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 teg.

There are five white dogs jumping in the beautiful garden.

or Five white dogs are jumping in the beautiful garden.

Ma'n pemp kei gwydn ow lebmel e'n lowarth teg. 

The five white dogs are jumping in the beautiful garden.

Or try this one, using a verb that needs an object: 

Ma     There is/are

Think of a subject:

Ma kei.  There is a dog. 

What is it doing?

Ma kei ow tebry. 

There is a dog eating.

or  A dog is eating.

What is it eating?

Ma kei ow tebry selsigednow. 

There is a dog eating sausages.

or A dog is eating sausages.