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Ez bawer im ger ez ne kurd bûma jî,<br />
min ê dîsa li ser kurdan binivîsanda.<br />
Ger wilo dom bikira ew ê şerpeze û dîn<br />
bibûya.<br />
Ger wî destê xwe ji siyasetê bikişanda,<br />
wî ê hewcedariya ku ew nameyeke<br />
dirêj ji Mustefa Kemal Atatürk re<br />
bişîne, nedîta.<br />
I believe that, even if I weren’t a Kurd, I<br />
would have written about Kurds anyway.<br />
If it had continued like that, he would<br />
have gone crazy.<br />
If he had given up politics, he would not<br />
have considered it necessary to send a<br />
long letter to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.<br />
The phrase ne ji … bûya ‘were it not for …’ is a past conditional construction.<br />
Ne ji Celadet Beg bûya, me nizanîbû<br />
ku zimanê kurdî zimanê nivîsandinê<br />
ye an na.<br />
Were it not for Jeladet Beg, we wouldn’t<br />
have known whether Kurdish was a language<br />
for writing or not.<br />
(2) as a past or modal complement of past constructions that demand a<br />
subjunctive, like lazim in the first example and complement to an indefinite<br />
antecedent in the second: 1<br />
Lêbelê lazim bû ku me ji derekê ve<br />
dest bi vî karî bikira û me kir.<br />
Rîskeke mezin hebû ku wan ez tewqif<br />
bikirama.<br />
Diviyabû Sovyet di demeke kurt de ji<br />
Îranê derketa.<br />
Xelkê wê çaxê newêrîbûn xwe nêzîkê<br />
kesên sosyalîst bikirana.<br />
THE VERB<br />
On the other hand, it was necessary that<br />
we begin this labor somewhere, and so<br />
we did.<br />
There was a great risk that they would<br />
arrest me.<br />
The Soviet [Union] was supposed to<br />
have withdrawn from Iran in a short<br />
time.<br />
People at that time didn’t dare to get<br />
close to socialist persons.<br />
1<br />
Some writers follow the Persian model and use the present subjunctive after<br />
these expressions, but the past conditional is much more commonly used.<br />
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