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Dyskansow / Lessons
First Grade Course
Students should download lessons as required and submit their govynnadow and gramasek answers to their teacher for marking.

Work may be sent either as a regular email or as an attached MS Word document or text file.

(All are most welcome to make use of the course material, but only registered students have access to the support of KDL's expert language teachers.)
 
 
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Ray Edwards' Notes on the meaning and use of words
Revised: Nov 2006




Introduction
about KDL; using the lessons
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  Reference
pronunciation guide, mutation table, glossary of grammatical terms
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  Index Sheet
for your work file
 
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1   Kernow
mutations and indefinite article

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2   Breten Vyghan
adjectives with singular nouns; yw; particle a2
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3   Yowann ha Jenifer
possession; yw and yma; ‘to have’
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4   Yann hag Anjela
definite article; mutations; yma dhe2 word order; negative particle ny2
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6   Kynsa lyther Yann
past tense of verbs; the verb-noun.
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7   Gorthyp Yowann
subject pronouns and combinations with gans and dhe2
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8   Anjela
3rd. sing. forms of gul and mos; numbers 1 to 10; vocative particle a2
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9   Gwerthji Yowann
days of the week; time of day; use of ha
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11   Dy’ Sul
dhe2 with gul and preceding object; plural of nouns; adjectives with masculine plural nouns; present participle with ow4; preposition with verb-noun; word order
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12   Lyther Yann
verbal sentences; short and long forms of bos
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13   An Klas Gorthugher
demonstrative pronouns; yn-medh, eus, yn, war combined with pronouns
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14   Y'n tren
gul - present and past tenses; questions and answers with gul, qwell yw, res yw; possessive adjectives with nouns and verb nouns; present and past tenses of gweles and galloes
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16   Megi difennys
present and imperfect tenses of mynnes, drog yw, gwell yw
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17   Lyther Yowann
yn5 with adjectives; an jydh
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18   Kastell Penndinas
imperfect of gul, kara, galloes, and gweles
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19   Dyskans-Lywyas
second person imperative
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21   An Wor-varghas
cardinal and ordinal numbers
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22   Chi Jenifer
combinations of prepositions and pronouns
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23   An Lowarth
the months of the year; collective plurals
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24   An Orsedh
the clock; numeral adverbs
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