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(4) min guh li te ne bî. (Şirîn and Buşra 2006:193)
1O hear at 2O not be.PRS.1SG
‘I don’t hear you.’
(5) heval-êt wî hîvî jê kir-Ø (Şirîn and Buşra 2006:193)
friend-EZ.PL 3OM hope from.3OM do.PST-3SG
‘His friend begged him.’
(6) te hîvî ji min kir-Ø (Şirîn and Buşra 2006:193)
2O hope from 1O do.PST-3SG
‘You begged me.’
Contractions are also found in prepositional phrases outside of their usage in idiomatic
verbs.
4.3 Stress
All nouns and adjectives ending in a consonant are stressed on the last syllable.
Words that end in a vowel, such as xanê ‘home’ and tinê ‘alone’ often have penultimate
stress. Usually when a grammatical element such as an oblique (§ 4.4.2.2), ezafe
conjunctive particle (§ 4.4.2.4.1) or indefinite noun (§ 4.4.2.4.2) suffix is added, whether it
ends in a consonant or vowel, the primary point of stress does not change.
For inflected forms of verbs some other rules must be considered. When a verb
begins with a negative prefix, na- or ne-, the stress falls on the prefix. Other verbal
elements, which Thackston refers to as preverbs, often receive stress, such as ve-, hilda-
and wer-. Thackston (2006:4) provides a third rule for verbs that states that modal
affixes di- and bi- are stressed; however, personally, in my experience, there are many