ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |2 pages

Uned un

Identification sentences Question words Pwy?, Beth? Identifiers hwn, hon; hwnna, honna; y rhain, y rheina

chapter |3 pages

Uned dau

Nouns and noun plurals

chapter |3 pages

Uned tri

The verb ‘to be': present tense statements (AFF) and questions (INT)

chapter |2 pages

Uned pedwar

The present tense of bod: neg forms

chapter |4 pages

Uned pump

Mutations: Soft Mutation

chapter |2 pages

Uned chwech

The definite article: ‘the … '

chapter |3 pages

Uned saith

The genitive construction: ‘the X of Y', etc.

chapter |2 pages

Uned wyth

Adjectives

chapter |3 pages

Uned naw

The present tense of verbs

chapter |2 pages

Uned deg

Other auxiliaries with the VN Requests

chapter |3 pages

Uned unarddeg

The complement marker yn° + noun/adjective

chapter |3 pages

Uned deuddeg

Personal pronouns Word order Third-person singular rule

chapter |3 pages

Uned undeg tri

‘Want' and ‘would like’

chapter |3 pages

Uned undeg pedwar

Aspirate and Nasal Mutations

chapter |3 pages

Uned pymtheg

Possessive adjectives: ‘his …', ‘her …’, ‘your …’, etc.

chapter |3 pages

Uned undeg saith

The imperfect of bod: ‘I was', ‘you were’, etc.

chapter |3 pages

Uned deunaw

The future of bod: ‘I will be', etc. Affirmative markers fe° and mi°

chapter |3 pages

Uned undeg naw

The imperfect and future of other verbs: ‘I wa… ing', ‘I wil…’

chapter |3 pages

Uned dauddeg

The existential verb: ‘There is/are …' ‘There was/were …’, etc.

chapter |3 pages

Uned dauddeg un

Conjugated prepositions

chapter |3 pages

Uned dauddeg dau

More conjugated prepositions

chapter |3 pages

Uned dauddeg tri

Possession

chapter |3 pages

Uned dauddeg pedwar

Stems Imperatives (command forms)

chapter |3 pages

Uned dauddeg pump

The inflected preterite: completed action in the past

chapter |3 pages

Uned dauddeg chwech

General principles with inflected verbs (verbs with endings)

chapter |3 pages

Uned dauddeg saith

Irregular preterites: ‘went', ‘came’, ‘did’, ‘got’

chapter |3 pages

Uned dauddeg wyth

Mo after inflected NEG verbs

chapter |3 pages

Uned dauddeg naw

Present tense ‘is/are' with question words

chapter |3 pages

Uned trideg

Numerals 1–12 Telling the time

chapter |3 pages

Uned trideg un

More numbers Faint … ? ‘How much/many … ?' Quantity expressions

chapter |3 pages

Uned trideg dau

Days, months and years

chapter |3 pages

Uned trideg tri

‘Some' and ‘any’; ‘no-one’, ‘everyone’; ‘all’

chapter |3 pages

Uned trideg pedwar

Rhaid ‘must', have to’

chapter |3 pages

Uned trideg pump

Rhaid-type expressions: °well, °waeth, man a man, hen °bryd

chapter |3 pages

Uned trideg chwech

Derived adverbs in yn° Summary of meanings and uses of yn

chapter |3 pages

Uned trideg saith

Wedi: ‘perfect' tense

chapter |4 pages

Uned trideg wyth

The pluperfect and future perfect

chapter |4 pages

Uned trideg naw

Yes/no answers Tags

chapter |3 pages

Uned pedwardeg

Translating ‘have'

chapter |2 pages

Intermediate Preview

chapter |20 pages

Key to Exercises