a-practical-kurdish-grammar

146 A PRACTICAL KURDISH GRAMMAR
OPTATIVE MOOD
Preterite or Perfect Tense
Singular Plural
As\:>^ y\ (amin bi-m-kut-
aya) would that I said, etc.
Pluperfect Tense
Singular Plural
4.b jUj 4*1 (ama bi-man-
kut-aya)
would that we said, etc.
4,l:iCv /v«l (amm bi-m-kut- 4jIjD jW "^Uama bi-man-
ft . w
(e) ba-ya)
would that I had said, etc,
IMPERATIVE MOOD
kut-(e) ba-ya)
would that we had said, etc.
Singular (2nd pers.) Plural (2nd pers.)
I yl (atu bi-il-e) ji ^1 (ango bi-lle-n)
say thou ! say ye !
PARTICIPLES
323. The only participial forms are the preterite cS
(gut), employed as basis for the past tenses, and yi (kutii),
the perfect participle form, which hardly ever is employed
as adjective
Verbal Noun
(kutin)
'saying'
(The act of saying)
THE PASSIVE VOICE
324. There are two ways of forming the passive in Kurdish.
The 1st. method, which is the simplest and most thoroughly