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ew bihatibe ew bihatibin wî bidîtibe wan bidîtibe
ez nehatibim em nehatibin min nedîtibe me nedîtibe
tu nehatibî hun nehatibin te nedîtibe we nedîtibe
ew nehatibe ew nehatibin wî nedîtibe wan nedîtibe
The past subjunctive is used (1) after all constructions that take subjunctive
complements (see §16.1) when the complement is in the past.
Gereke baran barîbe. It must have rained. 1
Ger car caran di hin cihan de çirûskin
pêketibin jî, dewlet bi xurtî çûye ser
wan, bi girtin, lêdan û îşkencê dengê
wan birîne.
If occasionally in some places some
sparks have caught fire, the state has
attacked them forcefully and silenced
them through arrest, beating, and torture.
(2) In past relative clauses with indefinite antecedents and in past clauses
introduced by indefinite relatives like ‘whoever,’ ‘whatever,’ ‘no matter
who,’ ‘no matter what,’ ‘however much,’ &c.
Kurdên ku navên Salih û Celadet
Bedir-Xan nebihîstibin pir kêm in.
Herçiqas me berhemên van nivîskaran
baş nexwendibin jî …
Te îşev çi kiribe divê tu ji min re
bibêjî.
Kê bi çi awayî nerazîbûna xwe ya li
dijî dewletê anîbe ziman, kî bi çi
awayî li dijî dewletê derketibe, kê bi çi
awayî ji bo bidestxistina mafên gelê
kurd têkoşîn dabe, dewlet heta niha
bi eynî metodên nemirovane çûye ser
wan.
THE VERB
Kurds who haven’t heard the names of
Salih and Jeladet Ali Bedir-Khan are
very few.
However much we haven’t read the
works of these writers well…
Whatever you’ve done tonight, you have
to tell me.
Whoever has expressed by any means
whatsoever his discontentment with the
state, whoever has combatted the state
by any means whatsoever, whoever has
made an effort by any means whatsoever
to attain the goals of Kurds, until
now the state has attacked them with
the same base methods.
(3) after weke ku ‘as though’ in the past for hypothetical situations and in
1
Compare this with the present subjunctive: gereke baran bibare ‘it must rain.’
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