Breton/Level 3/Lesson 3

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=Brezhoneg Tri/Lesson 3 - Identity=

You will learn

 * How to say something is something
 * Adjectives
 * More nouns

Geriadur
An____-se This ___

An____-mañ That ___

Eo Is

Eo / Geo It is (Yes) / Yes, it is (to insist)

N'eo ket It isn't (No)

Nouns
Gwer Glass

Gwin Wine

Lousoù Plants

Lann Gorse

Hennezh That (one)

Hemañ This (one)

Re Some/ones

Ar re-se These

Ar re-mañ Those

Tra Thing

Prenn Wood

Ostaliri Hotel

Evaj Drink

Derv Oak

Pluenn Pen

Adjectives
Mat Good

Droug Bad

Klok Complete

Torret Broken

Du Black

Gwenn White

Naet Clean

Lous Dirty

Gleb Wet

Sec'h      Dry

Gwan Weak

Kreñv Strong

Brezhoneg Breton

Saoznek (person) Saozneg (adjective) English

Kozh Old

Nevez New

Ledan Wide

Strizh Narrow

Leun (a) Full (of)

Goullo Empty

Skañv Light

Pouezhus Heavy

Uhel High

Izhel Low

Braz Big

Bihan Small

Eg. Gwin gwenn eo ar gwin-mañ. This wine is white wine

Goullo eo ar gwer ha gleb eo an daol. Ac'h, gwin daonet ! The glass is empty and the table is wet. Bloody wine.

Ex 1
Write out the Breton words, section by section.

Have 2 columns, clearly separated, and write Breton and English. Then cover up one column (eg. English) with paper and write the corresponding words on the paper. Then try it the other way round, cover up the Breton, and write out the words using the English as cues. This will be a little bit more difficult.

Repeat all this after an interval, the more you do it the easier you will remember the words.

Ex 2
Make up 10 sentences of your own using vocabulary you have learnt

Ex 3
Now, this will be a little more difficult

Take the adjectives listed above, and put them down on paper

Now, Each one has an opposite. Now re write the positives beside them

Cover up the original list, and write the list in English as before.

eg. bihan - small goullo - empty

And again cover up the Breton, but write the English Opposite. Eg.

small- big

empty - full

Now, Cover up the first English column, and write the Breton for the 2nd English.

big - braz

full - leun

Cover up the English and write the opposites again.

braz - bihan

leun - goullo

Then back to the beginning again

bihan - small

goullo - empty

Carry on doing this until you can do it with ease.

Again, you will learn these verbs really quite quickly while doing this.

You can also do this the same for nouns and verbs

mamm - mum - dad - tad - mamm

You can include as many words as you want.

ar vaouez vihann - the small woman - the big man - an den braz - ar vaouez vihann

You can do practically anything with this.


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