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Divê tu herî bajêr, ji bo ku tu têkevî
mektebê.
Serdar Îhsan Nûrî, Ferzende digel şêst
siwarî şande nav eşîrên serhedan da
ku sedek hesp peyda bike.
Em radipelikîn penceran da ku em
çîrokan bibihîzin.
You have to go to town in order that you
attend to school.
Commander Ihsan Nuri, sent Ferzende
with sixty cavalrymen among the tribes
of the borders in order to find a hundred
horses.
We used to creep up to the windows in
order to hear the stories.
Conjunctions like weke ku ‘as,’ which do not necessarily take a following
subjunctive, may do so when doubt is implied.
Weke ku hun zanin… As you may know…
Compare the above example with the following, where no doubt is implied:
Weke ku hun dizanin… As you know…
The conjunction her ku has a variety of meanings for translation, but the
basic meanings are “the more…the more” when there is a comparative
involved (or implied) and “every time” for temporals.
Her ku roj bilind dibe, Mehabadî
dikevin tevgerê.
Her ku ber bi dibistanê tê û nêzîktir
dibe, bêtir jî diyar dibe ku kalekî
salmezin e.
Her ku hejmareke nû ya kovarê
derdiket, ew mîna zarokekî dilşa
dibû.
KURMANJI KURDISH
The higher the sun rises, the more the
Mahabadis fall into activity.
As he approaches the school, the closer
he comes, the more it becomes apparent
that he is an old man of great age.
Every time a new issue of the journal
would come out, he used to be as happy
as a child.
Her ku with a 3rd-person singular form of çûn in an appropriate tense is
used for the constant increase of something (“to keep getting…”).
Dengê ji ezmên herku diçû bêtir dibû. The noise from the sky kept getting
louder.
Her ku diçe dunya piçûk dibe. The world keeps getting smaller.
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