a-practical-kurdish-grammar

VERBS 193
are jyy o.r yy3-_ and yy.y Examples :
i\f.;f. -^^U
4XJj (ranga mal-(i)m bu-bu-be) or 4>..ij
^^jyj^A (»-'U(ranga mal-(i)m ha-bii-bii-be) 'I might have had
a house', (_j;j'j-> *1U 4Xij (ranga mal-(i)m na-bii-bii-be) 'I
might not have had a house', etc.
CONDITIONAL MOOD
355. For the present tense, see 251 and 288,
Preterite Tense
Singular Plural
L») (bi-m-ba) if I had
\C^ (bi-t ba)
\y (b-i ba)
if thou hadst
if he, she it had
I) JW) (bi-man ba) if we had
"(jLj (bi-tan ba)
\)jLj (bi-yan ba)
if you had
if they had
Note. The prefix a (ha) may be substituted for j (bi),
356. The negative is formed by employing j or \j instead
of the prefix > or a . Example : Lj y I (agar na-m-ba)
'if I had not', etc. The positive and negative 'dependent
Jy
forms' are b or La and Ij Examples: 'Lj JU p (agar
\ ^
mal-(i)-bi-ba) or La JU S (agar mal-(i)m (ha-ba) 'if I had
a house', etc.
I (agar mal-(i)m na-ba) 'if I had not
Perfect or Pluperfect Tense
Singular Plural
l)^~,j (bi-m-bû-ba)
if I had had, or
if I should have had
lyjUj (bi-man-bii-ba)
if we had had, or
if we should have had