a-practical-kurdish-grammar

PREPOSITIONS 209
U (ja) ] therefore, then
Ip-i (da-ja)
l! i (da-na)
(j-i (pas)
y. (has)
CHAPTER VII
PREPOSITIONS
372. There are very few prepositions of Kurdish origin.
Many Turkish, Persian, and Arabic prepositions are employed.
Some prepositions take postpositions, others stand alone;
some are joined to the following word, others are written sep¬
arately; and there are a few prepositional suffixes, -
The following list contains, besides real prepositions, a great
many substantives that are used as prepositions.
373. The prepositions that take postpositions are:
li_ ei (da-da) in Ij _ 4! (la-ra) or
li_ 4j (ba-da) through ej_ 4] (la-a-wa) from, on
]iyA3 (ba-(sar)-da) on
Note.Occasionally we meet with the preposition li 4J (la-
da) for 'in' or 'on'. ej_ 4. (ba-a-wa) for 'in', and \i yoi
(da-neu-da) for 'in'. (See 109-114.)
374. The 'prepositions that are sometimes joined to the
following word are:
J (b') to, by, with (in) f^ (pe-) to, by with
J (l') from (in) f. (bo) for
J (le-) from
Note.The 1 (b') is a contraction of 4. (ba), and retains its
whole signification in its contracted form. The Î (l') is a contrac-