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negative of hebû is tunebû ‘there was not any…, there was no….’
Madem ku zimannivîs tune, ev dewletçêkirin
çi ye?
As long as there are no writers, what’s
the use of creating this state?
Di vî warî da otorîteyeke resmî tune. In this regard there is no official authority.
Divabû ku ew kêzik wê şevê bihata
kuştin an na xew li min tunebû.
That bug would have to be killed that
night or else there would be no sleep
for me.
There is no verb in Kurdish equivalent to the English verb ‘to have.’
Kurdish expresses possession by the possessive construct followed by the
appropriate third person of the existential verb—heye ‘there is,’ hene ‘there
are,’ hebû ‘there was,’ or hebûn ‘there were.’
Pirsiyareke min heye. I have a question.
Pirsiyareke min hebû. I had a question.
Pênc zarokên wî hene. He has five children.
Cihekî bajarê Mehabadê yê taybetî di
dilê me de heye.
The city of Mahabad has a special place
in our hearts.
§ 13. The Infinitive. Kurdish infinitives end in -in, -în, -an, or -ûn, are
stressed on the final syllable (dîtín ‘to see,’ meşiyán ‘to walk,’ tirsî´n ‘to
fear’), and are construed as feminine nouns. The use of the infinitive as a
noun occasionally coincides with English usage, but it is more often used
where the English gerund (“-ing”) is used.
Axaftin, xwendin û nivîsîna bi zimanê
zikmakî, ji her mirovî re pêwîstiyek
e.
piştî weşandina kovara xwe bi salekê û
piştî avakirina Cumhûriyeta Tirkiyê
bi deh salan
KURMANJI KURDISH
To speak, to read, and to write in one’s
native language is a requirement for
every person.
a year after publishing his journal and
ten years after the founding of the Republic
of Turkey
An unmodified direct object of an infinitive precedes the infinitive and
forms a generic compound with it. Thus, qehwe vexwarin ‘to drink coffee,’
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