2nd Edition

Basic Welsh A Grammar and Workbook

By Gareth King Copyright 2014
    160 Pages
    by Routledge

    160 Pages
    by Routledge

    Basic 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.

    Key features include:

    • Clear, accessible format
    • Many relevant and useful examples
    • A wide range of challenging exercises to reinforce learning
    • Concise and jargon-free explanations of grammar
    • Full answer key, glossary of technical terms and Welsh-English, English-Welsh glossary at the back of the book

    Revised throughout, this updated second edition of Basic Welsh provides the ideal practice book for all beginning students in the language. It is suitable for both class use and independent study.

    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

    Biography

    Gareth King is UCAS co-ordinator, Oxbridge applications co-ordinator and Latin co-ordinator for a large sixth-form college. He is also the series editor for the Colloquials and the Routledge Welsh Reader.