Feelings

Vocabulary

In this lesson we learn to greet people using the time of day and introduce other people. We also talk about how those people are feeling.

To say “Good morning!” we say “Moghrey mie!”

To say “Good afternoon!” we say “Fastyr mie!”

Notice that both greetings have the word “mie” in them and it’s the first word that changes. This is because Manx puts the adjective (the describing word) second. “Mie” means “good,” “moghrey” means “morning,” and “fastyr” means “afternoon.”

If we want to say who we are we use “mish” followed by our name (for example, "mish Juan").

To ask “who’s this?” we say “quoi shoh?” where “quoi” means “who?” and “shoh” means “this.” (Notice the word for “is” is missing, so we’re just saying “Who this?”)

As well as "ta mee" ("I am"), we’ve already learned the way to say “it is” (“t'eh”). We also use “t’eh” to say “he is.”

To say “she is” we say “t’ee” and to say "they are" we use "t'ad."

Remember that "cha nel mee" is used to say "I'm not." "Cha nel" is also used to say other people aren't feeling something (for example, "cha nel ee," "cha nel eh," and "cha nel ad").

Also remember that "vel?" was our question word to ask both "are?" and "is?" for the questions "are you?" and "is it?" It's the same with the new words we've learned: we only need the one question word ("vel?") where English uses different words (that is, "am I?", "are you?", "is she?").

Lastly, we may also want to say that we or someone else is "very" something, in which case we use the word "feer."

We can put “t’eh,” “t’ee,” "t'ad," and "feer" with the feeling words we’ve learned previously:

she is happy ------ t'ee mayrney	he is not fine ------ cha nel eh braew	they are sick ------ t'ad çhing
they are not sad ------ cha nel ad trimshagh	is she very cold? ------ vel ee feer feayr?	he is not very hot ------ cha nel eh feer çheh
is he excited? ------ vel eh greesit?	they are not tired ------ cha nel ad skee	is she angry? ------ vel ee corree?