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Te dixwest jinek porzer û laş spî û<br />
dagirtî bi te re baya.<br />
You wanted there to be a blond-haired,<br />
white-skinned, well-built woman with<br />
you.<br />
Some writers use it after berî ku ‘before’ with reference to past time: 1<br />
Aw nivîsarên ku ji Hawarê re dihatin<br />
şandin, berî ku bihatana weşandin<br />
kesî ew di ber çav re derbas dikirin?<br />
Did anyone review the writings that<br />
were sent to Hawar before they were<br />
published?<br />
(3) Following a past perfect or modal of karîn ‘to be able’ for an unfulfilled,<br />
unfulfillable, or unrealized situation, i.e. what one couldn’t do,<br />
couldn’t have done, could have done but didn’t, or should or shouldn’t have<br />
done.<br />
Di mehên destpêkê de ez nikaribûm jê<br />
re bibûma alîkar.<br />
Ew dikaribû bibûya yek ji şaîrên dema<br />
xwe yê herî navdar.<br />
Meriv dikaribû ew bi her tiştî bi nav<br />
bikirina, lê ne …<br />
Îmkanên min ku ez bikaribûma vegeriyama<br />
Batmanê, Sêrtê an jî Diyarbekirê<br />
bimama, bijiyama, tune bû.<br />
Kesên ku bikaribana binivîsiyana jî<br />
gelekî kêm bûn.<br />
In the initial months I wasn’t able to be<br />
helpful to him.<br />
He could have become one of the most<br />
famous poets of his age.<br />
One could call them anything but not …<br />
There were no possibilities for me that I<br />
could return to Batman, Siirt, or even<br />
Diyarbekir and remain and live there.<br />
Persons who could write were very few.<br />
With the addition of ê/wê/dê to the past conditional, a future conditional<br />
modal (‘would, should’) is produced.<br />
Berî min, kesin din ev şixul bi ser<br />
xistibûn. Çima min ê nekira?<br />
Lê wî biryara xwe dabû, wî ê bixwenda.<br />
KURMANJI KURDISH<br />
Others before me had put this business<br />
in their heads. Why shouldn’t I do it?<br />
But he had made his decision: he would<br />
study.<br />
1<br />
Other writers prefer the present subjunctive exclusively after berî ku.<br />
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