kurmanji_complete

§ 25.2. The Past Perfect Conditionals .......................................................... 59
§ 26. The Passive Voice............................................................................... 62
§ 27. Postposed Verbal Complements ......................................................... 63
§ 28. Factitive Verbs .................................................................................... 64
§ 28.1. The Periphrastic Factitive Construction........................................... 65
OTHER SYNTACTICAL FEATURES
§ 29. Subordinate Clauses and Subordinating Conjunctions ....................... 66
§ 30. Relative Clauses.................................................................................. 67
§ 31. The Emphatic Jî .................................................................................. 70
§ 32. Expressions of Temporal Duration ..................................................... 71
§ 33. Sequence of Tenses after Past Verbs of Perception ............................ 71
§ 34. Questions with Ma .............................................................................. 72
Synopsis of Verb Tenses and Moods........................................................... 74
Common Verbs with Irregular Present Stems.............................................. 79
Conversion Table for Arabic and Cyrillic.................................................... 81
Grammatical and Orthographic Differences between “Standard” Kurmanji
and Ex-Soviet Kurmanji ....................................................................... 83
READINGS
Qedrîcan, “Rojên Derbasbûyî ............................................................... 86
Osman Sebrî, “Çar Leheng: Leheng I: Ferzende Beg” ......................... 91
Kurdo Husên, “Başoke” ........................................................................ 94
Şahînê B. Soreklî, “Vegera Mal” ........................................................ 101
“Cumhûriyeta Kurdî ya Mehabadê” ................................................... 107
Firat Cewerî, “Kêzika Bênav” ............................................................ 111
__________, “Li Mala Rewşen Bedir-Xan” ....................................... 116
__________, “Sedsaliya Celadet Alî Bedir-Xan” ............................... 120
Nûredîn Zaza, “Xurşîd” ...................................................................... 130
__________, “Gulê” ........................................................................... 133
Zeynelabîdîn Zinar, “Bavê Nazê” 138
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