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Welsh Grammar

Jones, Christine
ISBN-10: 0071490949
ISBN-13: 9780071490948

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Christine Jones(Cardiff, Wales) is an experienced teacher and author of Welsh language learning titles.Work out Welsh grammar Whether you are using it as a course or a reference, "Teach Yourself Welsh Grammar" is your comprehensive resource for how the Welsh language works. It is structured so that you can look up language forms according to what you want to say, even if you don't yet know the grammatical terms.
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Introductionp. ix
How to use this bookp. xi
Glossary of grammatical termsp. xiii
The Welsh alphabet and pronunciationp. 1
The Welsh alphabet and how to pronounce it
Accents
Stress
Double consonants
Mutationsp. 6
The soft mutation
The nasal mutation
The aspirate mutation
Aspirate h
Words that never mutate
The articlep. 15
a, an, some and any
The definite article and its uses
Nounsp. 20
Gender: masculine and feminine words
Number: how to form plurals
Genitive noun phrases: belonging and ownership
Adjectivesp. 28
Position of adjectives
Plural forms and their uses
Feminine forms
Comparatives and superlativesp. 34
Comparison of regular adjectives
Irregular adjectives
Adverbsp. 40
Formation and types of adverbs
Byth and erioed
A selection of common adverbial phrases
Personal pronounsp. 46
Independent pronouns: simple, reduplicated, conjunctive
Dependent pronouns: prefixed, auxiliary, infixed
Reflexive pronouns
Further pronouns and pronomaliap. 54
Interrogative pronouns
Demonstrative pronouns
Some common pronomalia: a selection of words that act like pronouns
Noun clausesp. 62
Formation of affirmative and negative noun clauses
Emphasis: mai / taw
noun clauses with efallai / hwyrach
Conjunctionsp. 69
Common conjunctions and their uses
Types of subordinate conjunctions: time, reason, purpose, contrast, result, conditional
Numeralsp. 77
Cardinal numbers: how to say and write them in Welsh
Ordinal numbers and their use in Welsh
Formation of multiplicative numbers
Timep. 84
Days of the week
Months of the year
Seasons of the year
Special days
Dates
Number of years
Divisions of time
Expressions of time
Time of day
Measures and dimensionsp. 93
Arithmetical signs
Decimals
Fractions
Dimensions
Units of measure
Expressions of quantity
Geometrical terms
Solids
Other measurement language
Points of the compass
Prepositions: simple and compoundp. 100
Simple conjugating prepositions
Non-declinable simple prepositions
Compound prepositions: prepositions consisting of more than one element
Using prepositionsp. 107
Common prepositions and their usage in Welsh
The verb to be - present and perfect tensesp. 120
Formation and usage of the present tense of bod
Formation and usage of the perfect tense
Use of the adjective newydd to mean just
The verb to be - future and past tensesp. 129
Formation and usage of the future and past tense of bod
The verb to be - imperfect and pluperfect tensesp. 137
Formation and usage of the imperfect tense
Formation and usage of the pluperfect
ar meaning about to
Regular verbs - present and future tensesp. 143
Formation and usage of regular verbs in the short form present and future tenses
Use of gwneud as an auxiliary verb
Regular verbs - imperfect and past tensesp. 150
Formation and usage of regular verbs in the short form imperfect
Formation and usage of regular verbs in the short form past tense
Irregular verbsp. 157
Formation of the most common irregular verbs in Welsh: present, past, imperfect
Commands (imperatives)p. 166
Affirmative commands
Negative commands
Polite commands
Relative clausesp. 173
Relative forms of bod: sy, oedd, fyddai, fydd
Regular verbs and the relative clause: a
y and the relative clause
Piau
The passivep. 182
Use of cael in a periphrastic construction
Impersonal verbal forms: present, past, imperfect, imperative
Defective verbsp. 189
dylwn
meddaf
ebe
byw
marw
gorfod
gweddu
geni
The subjunctivep. 197
The formulaic or present subjunctive
The conditional subjunctive
Use of bod wedi
The conditional subjunctive of bod
Conditional clauses: os, pe
Stems of common Welsh verb-nounsp. 206
Full conjugations of mynd, cael, gwnead and dodp. 208
Taking it furtherp. 211
Key to exercisesp. 216
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List price: $14.95
Edition: 2008
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Binding: Perfect 
Pages: 272
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.55 lbs.
Language: English

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