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(10) In relative clauses with indefinite antecedents, often preceded by<br />
wek or mîna ‘like.’ See §22 (3).<br />
Mîna gula ji lûla tufingê derkeve, tu ji<br />
malê derketî.<br />
Dîtina wî bû mîna kêra ku tu di birînê<br />
de bigerînî.<br />
You lit out of the house like a bullet shot<br />
from the barrel of a rifle.<br />
Seeing him was like a knife you twist in<br />
a wound.<br />
Two verbs, karîn ‘to be able’ and zanîn ‘to know,’ do not form their<br />
present subjunctives as other verbs do but use the form of the past subjunctive<br />
(see § 22 below) instead.<br />
§ 16.2. The Future Tense. The future tense is formed by adding -ê or dê to<br />
the personal pronouns followed by the present subjunctive conjugation. Tu<br />
+ ê is often contracted to tê (tû ê and tiwê also exist), and ew + ê may be<br />
contracted to wê, although the contraction is not mandatory. The conjugation<br />
of the future tense of çûn (affirmative and negative) is:<br />
ezê (ez dê) biçim emê (em dê) biçin ezê (ez dê) neçim emê (em dê) neçin<br />
tê (tu dê) biçî hunê (hun dê) biçin tê (tu dê) neçî hunê (hun dê) neçin<br />
ewê (ew dê) biçe ewê (ew dê) biçin ewê (ew dê) neçe ewê (ew dê) neçin<br />
When the subject of a future-tense verb is a noun, wê, ê, or dê comes after<br />
the noun. All the future markers are reflexes of the present stem (ێو wê)<br />
of the verb ﱳـــﺴـــfو wîstin ‘to want,’ which still exists in Sorani Kurdish and<br />
which has produced this synthetic tense much like the English future compounded<br />
with ‘will.’<br />
Dema em dê bighêjin Ewropa, 1 keçên<br />
porzer li Ferensa û li Swêdê wê li ser<br />
porê me dîn bibin.<br />
Ew dibêje ku ewê bi siyasetê ve mijûl<br />
nebe.<br />
KURMANJI KURDISH<br />
When we get to Europe, the blonde girls<br />
in France and Sweden will go crazy for<br />
our hair.<br />
He says he won’t get involved in politics.<br />
1 Kurdish, like French (quand nous arriverons en Europe), uses the future after<br />
‘when’ when it has a future implication.<br />
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