a-practical-kurdish-grammar

122 A PRACTICAL KURDISH GRAMMAR
clause containing the condition, is in the present tense, the
'apodosis', or clause containing the conclusion, is put in the
present indicative. (See 251.) But if the 'protasis' is in the
past tense, the 'apodosis' is put in the imperfect indicative.
(See 254 and 258.) Examples :^i iJl>- r^lj ^Si> t>,l^l(agar
amin lawai bi-ba-m, chak da-bû) 'If I were there, it would
have been good'; yX ijU- : ^c,\ ij^\ y\ p\ (agar atii lawai
ba-i, chak na-da-bii) 'if you (sing) were there, it would not
have been well', etc.
201. By employing the conjunction l j (birya) 'would
y -J. ^ '
that', instead of J, \ (agar), we obtain an optative sense. Ex¬
amples : =lj ^1 l^ (birya amin bi-ba-m) 'would that I
were'; ^c,^ ^c,^ y\ l^ (birya atu la-wai ba-i) 'would that thou
wert there', etc.
Singular
Perfect Tense
\. y. (>"' (amin bi-bii ba-m) if I have been, or if I have
become
^\ y. y^ (^tii bi-bu ba-i) if thou hast been, or if thou
Plural
hast become
\ y 5\ (au bi-bu ba-) if he, she, it has been, or if he,
she, it has become
61*; y. "^' (ama bi-bu ba-in) if we have been, or if we have
become
'^\ y. y^^ (ango bi-bu ba-n) if you have been, or if you
have become