Breton/Introductory lessons/Breton Basics

Introduction to BretonBreton Basics 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 a ra Yann Bremañ To read does Yann Bremañ Image:Breton bases.ogg First Breton words br en 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 verb particle "a" (other verb particles exist "e", "o", etc.) "a lenn" : the verb "to read" is used in a personal form with a verb 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" deep