2025 Day 237
2025 Dedh Dew Cans Seytek warn Ügens
Monday, 25th August
Story part 3
Daralla radn trei
Locative is colour coded red (including participle and secondary verbs). Descriptive is colour coded green.
Where English has an active verb, Cornish often uses a passive construction with dhe to or gen with/by.
Ma fer e’n hel an scol hedhyw. There is a fair in the school hall today.
Ma Rosa ow rei dew olifans gwydn dh’y descador rag an stall olifanjes gwydn. Rosa gives (is giving) two white elephants to her teacher for the white elephant stall.
Ma’n descador ow wherhin ha nag üjy Kettern ow convedhes rag fra. The teacher laughs (is laughing) and Katie does not understand (is not understanding) why.
Ma Kettern ow rei hy dilhas coth dhe dhescadores hei. Katie gives (is giving) her old clothes to her teacher.
An dilhas ew hatt ha mantel dhort hy dama wydn ha scòdhlen dhort hy dama. The clothes are a hat and a cloak from her grandmother and a shawl from her mother.
Ma’n mosy (mowesy) ow metya gen aga hòthmans en pras an scol ken dallath an fer. The girls meet (are meeting) with their friends in the school field before the start of the fair.
Tòbmas ha Tamsin Penrose ew gevellyon, saw nag en jei gevellesow kehaval pecar'a Kettern ha Rosa. Thomas and Thomasina Penrose are twins, but they are not identical twins (like Katie and Rosa).
Ma Jory Curnow ena rag goheles y vabm. George Curnow is there to avoid (for avoiding) his mother.
Nag eus croust gen an mosy (mowesy), etho mons ow perna hogednow e’n chei pobas. The girls do not have a packed lunch with them, so they buy (are buying) pasties in the bakery.
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