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ewê bizanîbe ewê bizanîbin ewê bikarîbe ewê bikarîbin
Êdî her kes wê bizanîbe ku karê me
çiqas bi zehmet e.
Tiştek ne dihat xuya kirin ku mirov
bibêje ev ê bikaribe bibe sedema ewte
ewta kûçikên gund.
Now everybody would realize how difficult
our work was.
Nothing could be made out that one
might say it could be the reason for the
barking of the village dogs.
§ 24. The Modal of Karîn. The verb karîn ‘to be able’ in the past subjunctive
and future perfect corresponds to the English modal ‘could’ or ‘would
be able.’ When the modal indicates present or future time it is followed by
the present subjunctive, as in the following examples:
Gava mirov pirsek wilo ji te bike, tu ê
navê kîjan romana xwe bidî? —Mixabin,
ez ê nikaribim bersiva vê
bidim.
Ji bo ku ew bikaribe alfabeya xwe di
nava kurdan de belav bike, ew biryara
derxistina kovarekê dide.
Asûrî, ereb, ermen, û faris cîranên me
ne û yên herî kevin in, lê mixabin di
bareya edebiyata wan de tiştekî
nizanim ku bikaribim ya me û yên
wan bidim ber hev.
THE VERB
When someone asks you such a question,
which novel of yours would you
name? —Unfortunately I wouldn’t be
able to give him an answer.
So that he could spread his alphabet
among the Kurds he decided (hist.
pres.) to bring out a journal.
Assyrians, Arabs, Armenians, and
Persians are our neighbors, and very
anciently so, but unfortunately I don’t
know anything about their literatures
that I could compare ours with theirs.
§ 25. The Irrealis Mood. Kurmanji Kurdish is particularly rich in irrealis—
or contrafactual—modals. There are two modal tenses devoted to the irrealis,
a past conditional and a past perfect conditional, of which there are two
varieties.
§ 25.1. The Past Conditional. The past conditional is made by prefixing bíand
adding the following endings to the past stem. In close compound verbs
the bí- prefix may be omitted.
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