Breton/Introductory lessons/Breton Basics

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Your first steps in Breton
Here are the very first sentences of Breton in this course :

Piv eo ? Who is ?
 * Who is it ?

Yann eo John is
 * It's John

Petra a ra Yann ? What does John ?
 * What does John do?

Yann a lenn Bremañ John reads Bremañ
 * John reads Bremañ (insisting upon the subject : John)

Lenn   a ra Yann Bremañ To read does Yann Bremañ
 * John reads Bremañ (insisting upon the verb : To read)



First Breton words

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Verbal group
In the preceding sentences, we have several verbal groups :


 * "eo" : the verb "to be" is used alone in a personal form


 * "a ra" : the verb "to do" is used in a personal form with a verb particle "a" (other verb particles exist "e", "o", etc.)


 * "a lenn" : the verb "to read" is used in a personal form with a verb particle "a" as above


 * "lenn a ra" : the verb "to read" is used in an impersonal form with an auxiliary verb which is in a personal form "a ra"
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