Breton Mutations - Soft Mutation - Environments - After Adjectives and Nouns

After Adjectives and Nouns

The soft mutation occurs in:

• Adjectives following feminine singular nouns:

kador gaer "beautiful chair"

• Adjectives following masculine plural nouns referring to people:

breudeur vat "good brothers"

• Nouns following adjectives:

e berr gomzoù "in few words"

These mutations are limited. When the first word ends in a vowel or -l, -r, -m, -n it causes the soft mutation wherever possible, but when the first word ends in any other consonant only the consonants g-, gw-, m-, b- change in the following words.