a-practical-kurdish-grammar

172 A PRACTICAL KURDISH GRAMMAR
IMPERATIVE MOOD
Singular (2nd pers.) Plural (2nd pers.)
4Xj _^W(hazir bi-k-a) I jXi ^W (hazir bi-k-(a)n)
prepare thou ! I prepare ye !
Verbal Noun
(jip _^.,-(hazir kirdin)
'preparing'
(The act of preparing.)
337. The peculiarity of the compound transitive verb is
that in all the past tenses the 'suffix pronouns' or personal
endings are joined to the noun or adjective employed, and
the auxiliary appears in its simple tense stem. The negative
is formed by simply prefixing the negative particle > or u
to the tense stem. In all tenses employing the inseparable
prefixes i (da) or > (bi), except in the imperfect indicative,
the negative particles are substituted for the prefixes. Ex-
amples:j»5vj _^\>-(hazir na-k-(a)m) or j»3 iJ _^ l>- (hazir na-
k-(a)m) 'I do not prepare', or 'I will not prepare';
Xj J»l>- 4Xij(ranga hazir na-k-(a)m) 'I may or might not
prepare' ; i p a, . J?W(hazir-i()m na-da-kirt) I was not pre¬
paring'; e3i S J^r^l>-(hazir-ri kirdii-a) 'you have prepared';
e3iy~> (_$ -j»U-(hazir-i na-kirdi"i-a) 'he, she, it has not pre¬
pared'; y iy^i o^yf\3- (hazir-tan na-kird-(e) bii), or
3l iyj 3j-^^ (hazir-ii na-kird-(e) bii) 'you had not pre¬
pared', etc.
338. Model of the Conjugation of a Compound Passive Verb
yp j-fi^ (hazir kiran)
'to be prepared'