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kitêbeke nû ya min a new book of mine
xaniyê me our house
(2) direct objects of all present-tense verbs (and all verbs formed from the
present stem of the verb)
Tu min dibînî? Do you see me?
Ez te dibînim. I see you.
Ew me dibîne. He sees us.
Em nikarin wan bibînin. We cannot see them.
(3) complements of prepositions and circumpositions
ji min from me
ji wî from him
ji wê from her
bi wan re with them
(4) agents of all past transitive verbs (see §18.2 below)
Te ez dîtim. You saw me.
Min ew dîtin. I saw them.
§ 7.1 The Reflexive Pronoun Xwe. The reflexive pronoun xwe has, in and
of itself, no person or number but takes its person and number from the subject
of the verb in the clause in which it occurs. It can thus mean, as a possessive,
‘my own, ‘your own,’ ‘his/her own,’ ‘our own,’ or ‘their own’ as
well as the objective ‘myself,’ ‘yourself,’ ‘him/herself,’ ‘ourselves,’ ‘yourselves,’
or ‘themselves.’ Xwe must be used as both possessive pronoun and
object pronoun to refer to the subject of the verb, i.e. the personal pronouns
cannot be so used. Constructions like kitêba min ‘my book’ and hevalên
min ‘my friends’ are viable in any clause in which ‘I’ is not the subject of
the verb, but not in sentences like “I see my book” and “I went with my
friends,” where kitêba xwe and hevalên xwe must be used.
Dêlikek teva du cewrên xwe li ser riya
min xuya dibûn.
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A bitch used to appear on my route with
her two pups.