a-practical-kurdish-grammar

126 A PRACTICAL KURDISH GRAMMAR
Singular
Pluperfect Tense
4)U\j^ y\ (amin'bi-bii-ba-m-aya) would that I had been, or
would that I had become
^.\.\y. y' (atu bi-bii-ba-i-aya) would that thou hadst been,
Plural
or would that thou hadst become
^y.y. 3^ (ail bi-bû-ba-ya) would that he, she, it had been,
or would that he, she, it had become
"^yiSy "^^ (ama bi-bû-ba-în-aya) would that we had been,
or would that we had become
"^J^Sy A'' (ango bi-bû-ba-n-aya) would that you had been,
or would that you had become
4)\j\)_yJ o^j\ (awan bi-bii-ba-n-aya) would that they had been,
or would that they had become
308. The negative is formed by substituting the negative
particle > or lî for the prefix > (bi), or if the latter is
omitted, by simply prefixing the negative particle. Examples :
.\3f ily^ \.ji (bir-ya amin na-bii-ba-m-aya) 'would that I
had not been', or 'would that I had not become'.
309. The preterite tense of the conditional and the optative
moods of the verb 'to be' and 'to become', are peculiar to this
verb and do not exist in other verbs. The regular conjugations
employ only two tenses in these moods, the preterite, and the
perfect or pluperfect. For further notes on these moods, see
194, 4, 5, 260 and 263.