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(236) tazî ya Qazî jibîr ne-k-in bo bi-k-in (BS4:23)
funeral EZ.F Qazî remember NEG-do-IMP.PL for (him) IRR-do-IMP.PL
şînî her sal
mourning every year
‘Don’t forget the funeral of Qazî, mourn for him every year.’
In (237), Nalbend put the light verb biken before the non-verbal element pisyar. The
words together mean ‘ask.’
(237) bi-k-en pisyar li ḧal-ê me (AN1:59)
IRR-do-IMP.PL question of condition-EZ.M 1OP
‘Ask of our condition.’
In line 8 of Dînê Me Tête Zanîn, ‘Our Religion Is Becoming Known,’ Cegerxwîn
put the nominal element mitala, ‘thought, thinking, reflection, pondering,’ after the light
verb dikin, ‘is doing.’ Kurds in the Badinan region would normally say mitala dikin. The
word is syntactically joined to the light verb and is not the verb’s object. In (238), the
order dikin mitala is considered uncommon. While mitala looks like a noun with a plural
ending, it actually comes from the Arabic word mutala’ah, which means ‘reading.’
(238) her dem di-k-in mitala, daxwaz ji wan re (CX3:8)
all time IPFV-do.PRS-3PL ponder request from 3OP from
havîn
summer
‘All the time pondering. We request only summer from them.’
5.4.1.1.8 Adjective before noun
In line 31 of Xoşe Wekî Cenetê, ˈIt’s Wonderful Like Heaven,’ shown in (239),
Nalbend put an adjective before a noun. A speaker of Northern Kurdish would normally
say bejna rast, which utilizes the feminine ezafe, -a, to connect the modifier, rast,
’straight,’ to the head noun, bejin, ‘stature.’ In this instance, normal order would not
increase the number of syllables, as the i in bejin elides due to the addition of the ezafe
particle. Regarding the phrase xuş zelam, my consultant said that, in this case, both xuş
zelam and zelamê xuş (which is normal order that utilizes the masculine ezafe, -ê, to
connect the modifier xuş) are commonly heard among speakers of Northern Kurdish.