Ûsya an amser present-hogen. Using the present-future tense. Ottòbma dhewgh poynt a skians ow tòchya gan gramer.
Hedhyw, my a glowas üdn gowethes ow leverel “Nei a wra mos adro...” kens es “Thera nei ow mos a-dro...” pa thera ow clappya dro dhe'n peth üjy hei 'h ûsya gwil, i.e. "We go around." Betegens, an secònd fras (phrase) ew an gwelha rag hedna ha'n kensa ew ònderstondys, môy menowgh, avel “We shall go about”. Ma radn whath dhe vos kevys üjy 'sòpposya an kensa form dhe vos pecar ha'n Sowsnek “We go...” ha'n diwettha avel “We are going...”. Scant nag ew hedna an cas. Sür, ma meur a bobel ort aga ûsya endelha, rag e veu deskys dhodhans e'n fordh-na (vorr-na). En gwelha pres, keffres Richat Gendall ha Nicholas Williams a wrüg scrifa a-dro dhe hebma kens lebmyn, m'alja bos ownys gan fordhow (vorrow) ken vo re dhiwedhes ! Nynj ew kebmyn an amser present-hogen (present-future) en Kernôwek cowsys. E vedh ûsyes, na whath, rag an termyn a vedn dos (the future) – kens es an present termyn. Ma Richat Gendall (A Student's Grammar of Modern Cornish 1991, p. 72) ow compla fatel vedh ûsys an “Present-Future” endelha :
1. to express the future, 2. wòja les 'lest', 'in case' ha wòja rag own 'for fear of' pa vo cowsys a “hypothetical future usually with an idea of caution” (RG), 3. en certan lavarow ha proverbys, 4. en niver bian a verbow kebmyn, avel a' re üjy ow tòchya cows, gweles, clowes ha pewa (vbs for speaking, seeing, hearing & owning).
Ma Nicholas Williams ow scrifa e'n kethsam maner: “the present-future tense is much more frequently future than present in sense. Me a wra means 'I will do' rather than 'I do'. 'I do' is usually yth esof ow qwil.” ( = Thera vy ow qwil). Piwa benag a venja cawas samplys an lavarow eus en textow coth a alja pur dha dallath gen y lever Desky Kernowek (Evertype 2012), p 117.
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