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.
