Basic Welsh
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-74835-3 (ISBN)
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.
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.
Introduction 1. Identification sentences; question words Pwy?, Beth?; identifiers hwn, hon; hwnna, honna; y rhain, 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 Mutations 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 ‘must’, ‘have to’ 35. Rhaid-type expressions: well, waeth, man a man, hen bryd 36. Derived adverbs in yn°; summary of meanings and uses of yn 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
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 10.4.2014 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Routledge Grammar Workbooks |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 720 g |
| Themenwelt | Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-415-74835-6 / 0415748356 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-415-74835-3 / 9780415748353 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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