a-practical-kurdish-grammar

y(Ji (da-i-bil)
he, she, it was having
VERBS 189
^ij\.i(da-yan-bö)
they were having
347, . The negative is formed by prefixing the negative par¬
ticle ; or \j to i (da) and inserting the 'suffix pronouns'
between them. Examples : yXi (na-m-da-bû) 'I was not
having', yiCJ^ (na-t-da-bi'i) 'thou wast not having',
^5 ;: (na-i-da-bû) 'he, she, it was not having', etc. The
positive and negative 'dependent forms' are yi (da-bii) and
ypi (na-da-bû). Examples: yi ^JU (mal-(i)m da-bû) 'I
was having a house', yX y\* (mal-(i)m na-da-bû) *I was
not having a house', etc.
Preterite Tense
Singular Plural
y.a> (ha-m-bii) I had
j>0* (ha-t-bii) thou hadst
»j^*(ha-î-bû)
he, she, it had
j> jL-A (ha-man-bû)
.)jLft (ha-tan-bti)
^jL*(ha-yan-bû)
we had
you had
they had
348. The negative is formed by substituting the negative
particle > or li for the prefix a (ha). Examples: y^
(na-m-bil) 'I had not', etc. The positive and negative 'depend-^
ent forms' are y or ^.a and y . Examples: y ^U
(mal-(i)m bu) or ^a JU (mal-(i)m (ha-bû) 'I had a house'.
y jrlU (mal-(i)m na-bii) 'I had not a house', etc.