a-practical-kurdish-grammar

Table of Contents
Introductory Remarks Pages 7-11
CHAPTER I.THE KURDISH ALPHABET
Form of Letters 13
Phonetic Values of the Let¬
ters 15
Consonants 19
Vowels 21
CHAPTER II.NOUNS
Vowel Changes 23
Diphthongs 26
Accent 28
Punctuation 29
Gender . ". 29 Declension 37
Number 31 Table of Declension 46
Articles 32 Exercise I SO
Position 51
Comparison 52
Exercise II 53
Numeral Adjectives 53
Cardinals S3
Separate Personal Pronouns 61
Declension of the Separate
Personal Pronouns 61
Separate Possessive Pro¬
nouns 64
Suffix Pronouns 64
Declension of a Noun with a
Pronominal Suffix 65
Reflexive Pronouns 66
Declension of a Reflexive
Pronoun 66
Demonstrative Pronouns ... 69
The 'Stems' of the Kurdish
Verbs 78
Prefixes and Suffixes 79
The Personal Endings 81
CHAPTER III.- -ADJECTIVES
CHAPTER IV.PRONOUNS
CHAPTER v.VERBS
Ordinals 56
Fractionals S7
Multiples 58
Distributives 60
Exercise III 61
Declension of the Demonstra¬
tive Pronouns 70
Interrogative Pronouns ... 70
Declension of the Interroga¬
tive Pronouns 71
The Interrogative Pronoun
(kieha) with Pronominal
Suffixes 71
Relative Pronouns 72
Indefinite Pronouns 74
Exercise 11
The Negative and Prohibi¬
tive Particles 84
The Tenses of the Verb.... 86
The Moods of the Verbs 87