a-practical-kurdish-grammar

42 A PRACTICAL KURDISH GRAMMAR
(hat-a mal-e) 'he came to the house', or 'he came home';
( 4*1.5 (derara arzaröm) 'I will come to Erzeroum';
'^y 4*k.^ (da-i-kain-a nökar) 'I shall make him servant';
'o^JLJljijjy 4^,5^1 (ai^gö dakam-a törawan-i insan-
an) 'I will make you to become fishers of men', or 'I will
make you into fishers of men'.
106. There is also a Dative without any preposition or
prepositional suffix, in connection with the verb y^ (chti) 'he,
she, or it went'. Examle : ^\j> y>: (chû mal-e) 'he went
home', on 'he went to the house'.
107. Some dialects, especially around Sakiz, employ the
suffix ej (wa), which means 'ward' or 'toward'. Example:
epU _,».(chû mala-wa) 'he, she or it w^ent home' (lit.home¬
ward). A very common Dative without a preposition is in¬
troduced by employing the 'Suffix Pronouns'. Examples:
\SS J \i (nan-i dada) 'he, she or it gives him, her or it
bread'; /^S û^b-> (draû-yan dadam) 'I give (or will give)
them money'. See 162, 163.
108. The Accusative Case is usually the same in form as
the Nominarive; but it less frequently takes the article suffixes.
Examples: ^3}'> J^^ (malaka-i dafröshim) 'I shall sell
the house'; *ijjsS ^\^ jUaû mala-î dafröshim) 'I shall sell
the (this or that) house'; (_/-.J\^ (malek-i dafröshim)
'I shall sell a house'. Without using the arricles : (tT'V-* J^
(mal-e dafröshim) 'I shall sell the house'; b i d^J^ J^
(mal-e drust daka) 'he is building a house' ; ^3y> > iSjr^
(sher-i dakûzhim) 'I shall kill the (or a) lion'.