a-practical-kurdish-grammar

VERBS 103
4)Ul)U__;:; (birya amin na-tirsa ba-m-aya) 'would that I had
not feared'; A,\i\j'y j\ \y (birya au na-tirsa ba-ya) 'would
that he had not feared', etc.
264. The conditional mood is very often employed instead
of the optative, by using the conjunction \y (birya) with it,
and the optative is very often employed instead of the con¬
ditional, by using the conjunction p\ (agar) with it. Ex-
aples : We very often hear ^^^^y