Breton/Breton bases

Introduction to Breton Breton bases

Your first steps in Breton Here are the very first sentences of Breton in this course : Who is it ? Piv eo ? Who is ? It's John Yann eo John is What does John do? Petra a ra Yann ? What does John ? John reads Bremañ (insisting upon the subject : John) Yann a lenn Bremañ John reads Bremañ John reads Bremañ (insisting upon the verb : To read) Lenn Bremañ a ra Yann To read Bremañ does Yann First Breton words (br) (en) IPA notation Piv Who piu Eo Is eo Yann John yañn Petra What petra Lenn To read len Bremañ Now (Breton newspaper) bremañ

Verbal group In the preceding sentences, we have several verbal groups : "eo" : the verb "to be" is used alone in a personal form "a ra" : the verb "to do" is used in a personal form with a verbal particle "a" (other verbal particles exist: "e", "o", etc.) "a lenn" : the verb "to read" is used in a personal form with a verbal particle "a" as above "lenn a ra" : the verb "to read" is used in an impersonal form with an auxiliary verb which is in a personal form "a ra"

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