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Em behsa beşê kurdên Kurdistana
Tirkiyeyê dikin.
We are discussing the role of the Kurds
in Turkey’s Kurdistan.
Close compound verbs of the hildan ‘to raise’ and vekirin ‘to open’ type
do not admit extension through a construct. They take normal direct objects
before the verb.
Ji peyayên gundî hinek ji dûr ve silavê
li wî hildidin.
Soviyetî pirtûkên dersan yên bi kurdî
çap dikin û dibistanên kurdî vedikin.
THE VERB
A few of the village men raise a greeting
to him from afar.
The Soviets print schoolbooks in Kurdish
and open Kurdish schools.
§ 16. The Formation of the Present Subjunctive. Like the present indicative,
the present subjunctive is formed from the present stem of the verb and
the personal suffixes. The modal marker for the subjunctive is bí-. Unlike
the dí prefix, bí does not usually drop its vowel in favor of an initial a in the
stem, but in some dialects it may do so (i.e. baxivim for biaxivim).
ez bíçim em bíçin ez bíaxivim em bíaxivin
tu bíçî hun bíçin tu bíaxivî hun bíaxivin
ew bíçe ew bíçin ew bíaxive ew bíaxivin
In compound verbs, the bí- prefix is optional, and it is usually omitted
with close compounds (generally speaking, those that are written together as
one word and, by and large, verbs compounded with kirin unless there is an
extended complement). When the bí- prefix is omitted, the absence of a
modal prefix identifies the verb as subjunctive, as in ve-xwarin (ve-xw-) ‘to
drink’ and hil-dan (hil-d-) ‘to lift’:
ez véxwim em véxwin ez híldim em híldin
tu véxwî hun véxwin tu híldî hun híldin
ew véxwe ew véxwin ew hílde ew híldin
The negative prefix for the subjunctive is né-, which replaces bí- where it
occurs. Where there is no bi- prefix, the negative is attached to the verbal
part of compounds.
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