Basic Welsh : a grammar and workbook
By: King, Gareth
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Previously published by Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 1996.
Introduction 1 Identification sentences: question words Pwy?, Beth?; identifiers hwn, hon; hwnna, honna; y rhin, y rheina 2 Nouns and noun plurals 3 The verb 'to be': present tense statements (AFF) and questions (INT) 4 The present tense of bod: NEG forms 5 Mutations: Soft Mutation 6 The definite article: 'the...' 7 The genitive construction: the X of Y' etc. 8 Adjectives 9 The present tense of verbs 10 Other auxiliaries with the VN; requests 11 The complement marker yn + noun/adjective 12 Personal pronouns; word order; third-person singular rule 13 'Want' and 'would like' 14 Aspirate and Nasal Mutation 15 Possessive adjectives: 'his...', 'her...', 'your...', etc. 16 Yn and mewn 'in' 17 The imperfect of bod: 'I was', 'you were', etc. 18 The future of bod: 'I will be', etc.; affirmative markers fe and mi 19 The imperfect and future of other verbs: 'I was ...ing', 'I will...' 20 The existential verb: 'There is/are...', 'There was/were...', etc. 21 Conjugated prepositions 22 More conjugated prepositions 23 Possession 24 Stems; imperatives (command forms) 25 The inflected preterite: completed action in the past 26 General principles with inflected verbs (verbs with endings) 27 Irregular preterites: 'went', 'came', 'did', 'got' 28 Mo after inflected NEG verbs 29 Present tense 'is/are' with question words 30 Numerals 1-12; telling the time 31 More numbers; Faint.../ 'How much/many.../'; quantity expressions 32 Days, months and years 33 'Some' and 'any', 'no-one', 'everyone'; 'all' 34 Rhaid-type expressions: well, waeth, man a man, hen bryd 36 Derived adverbs in yn; summary of meanings and uses 37 Wedi: 'perfect' tense 38 The pluperfect and future perfect 39 Yes/no answers; tags 40 Translating have Key to exercises Glossary of technical terms Vocabularies Welsh-English English-Welsh.
asic Welsh: A Grammar and Workbook comprises an accessible grammar handbook and related exercises in a single volume. The book presents forty grammar units, covering the core materials which beginning students would expect to encounter in the course of learning Welsh. User-friendly grammar points are followed by multiple examples and exercises which allow students to reinforce and consolidate their learning.