A Compendious Welsh Grammar, Or a Short and Easy Introduction to the Welsh Language: With a Copious Alphabetical Table of Particles, Shewing Their Proper Effects on the Initials of Subsequent Words; to which is Added a Short English and Welsh Vocabulary, and Familiar Dialogues

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H. Hughes, 1843 - 182 pages
 

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Page 30 - There are three degrees of comparison ; the positive, the comparative, and the superlative.
Page 116 - All the other possessive pronouns (except eiddo) are placed before their expressed substantives : the radical initial letter of their substantives being changed after fy into their...
Page 15 - VERBS of the third person singular, an de noting ADJECTIVELY those qualities that agree with their abstract significations. And some of them also perform the functions of prepositions, conjunctions, and adverbs. The DERIVATIVE WORDS are various in their formations ; but in general they are not long; not many exceeding four syllables. Of Accent. Besides the advantage arising from the circumstance that every character represents uniformly but one appropriate sound, and none of the letters being mute;...
Page 27 - II. By either changing the Singular Vowel, with an addition; or by adding another Vowel to the ultimate Vowel of the Singular, and without an addition. Of...
Page 24 - ... out of the proper gender of the substantive given, provided the substantive begin with one or other of the mutable consonants. RULE. Any word beginning with any of the mutable consonants, except...
Page 33 - Cardinal Numbers have no Plural, when put in apposition or in composition with their Substantives ; though their Substantives, at the same time, may be either Singulars or Plurals : as, Tri, gwr, tri-wyr.
Page 54 - ... cases) first, the affirmative adverb a next, and the verb last. But these two last forms are seldom used in any other mood but the Indicative. These several forms will the more plainly appear by the examples following. INDICATIVE MOOD. PRESENT TENSE. — I am, thou art, &c. SINGULAR. PLURAL. 1 Dysgir fi 1 Dysgir ni 2 Dysgir di 2 Dysgir chwi 3 Dysgir ef or hi 3 Dysgir hwynt. 1 Gwrandewir fi 1 Gwrandewir ni 2 Gwrandewir di 2 Gwrandewir chwi 3 Gwrandewir ef or hi 3 Gwrandewir hwynt. Periphrastical...
Page 123 - ... ddo: or otherwise, by repeating the verb, and putting it in the proper person, if an affirmative answer; but if negative, by repeating the verb, and putting no before it: as, addywedaist ti felly?
Page 99 - Both substantives being common, and not pertaining either to manufacture or material whereof a thing is done, or to be done, the latter is immediately subjoined to the former, without any...

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