a-practical-kurdish-grammar

70 A PRACTICAL KURDISH GRAMMAR
amples : eyt> oj\ (awa hawa) 'this is he', or 'this is the one' ;
o^fc j\ (au hawa), 'that is he', or 'that is the one'.
178. For a distant past time, season, or period, the Ac¬
cusative of jl (au) is employed. Examples : t^jjj (_^j|(awe
rözhe) 'that day ; ^^p ijj\ (awe shawe) 'that night', or 'that
same nighf ; ^i (jj] (awe dame) 'that rime', or 'that same
time'; j [i^'j ^_^j\ (awe zistane) 'that winter', or 'that same
winter'.
179. In some districts of Sinna and Sakis, ç is substi¬
tuted for ^ , in the demonstratives. They say 4.^1 (ama)
for ejl (awa), - (chi)
'what?', and 4Li (kieha) 'which?', or 'which of two?'.
Note. The interrogativ pronoun 4^ is equally applicable to per¬
sons and inanimate things.
Declension of the Interrogative Pronouns
182. They are thus decline:
Nom. ^ - (kie) who?
Gen. f^ t^l(i kie) of whom?, or whose?