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Ez pê bawer bûm ku meriv ê bikaribûya,<br />
bi zimanê kurdî, romanek ava<br />
bikira.<br />
Ji rûniştevanên wê, mirov dê bigotaya<br />
Kurdistan e.<br />
I believed that one should be able to produce<br />
a novel in Kurdish.<br />
To judge by the inhabitants of it, one<br />
would say it was Kurdistan.<br />
Ew ê gelek nebaş bibûya. It would have been very bad.<br />
(4) After xwezî ‘would that, I wish’ or the verb xwiziyan ‘to wish’ for<br />
unfulfillable wishes in the past, often without the bi- prefix.<br />
Ax, xwezî wî zanîbûya ez çiqasî bi vê<br />
peyvê diêşiyam.<br />
Xwiziya wî satila Nazî jî bi xwe re anî<br />
ba bo tijî av bike.<br />
THE VERB<br />
Oh, would that he had known how<br />
pained I was by those words.<br />
He wished he had brought Nazi’s bucket<br />
too to fill it with water.<br />
§ 26. The Passive Voice. The passive voice is constructed from the verb<br />
hatin (conjugated in all persons, moods, and tenses) plus the infinitive. Examples<br />
of the passive are the following conjugations of hatin dîtin ‘to be<br />
seen.’ For any other passive verb, simply substitute the infinitive for dîtin.<br />
PRESENT INDICATIVE PRESENT SUBJUNCTIVE<br />
‘I am seen, &c.’ ‘that I be seen, &c.’<br />
ez têm dîtin em tên dîtin ez bêm dîtin em bên dîtin<br />
tu têyî dîtin hun tên dîtin tu bêyî dîtin hun bên dîtin<br />
ew tê dîtin ew tên dîtin ew bê dîtin ew bên dîtin<br />
FUTURE SIMPLE PAST<br />
‘I will be seen, &c.’ ‘I was seen, &c.’<br />
ezê bêm dîtin emê bên dîtin ez hatim dîtin em hatin dîtin<br />
tê bêyî dîtin hunê bên dîtin tu hatî dîtin hun hatin dîtin<br />
ewê bê dîtin ewê bên dîtin ew hat dîtin ew hatin dîtin<br />
PRESENT PERFECT PAST PERFECT<br />
‘I have been seen, &c.’ ‘I had been seen, &c.’<br />
ez hatime dîtin em hatine dîtin ez hatibûm dîtin em hatibûn dîtin<br />
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