a-practical-kurdish-grammar

VERBS 81
certain word, and other dialects use it as a suffix to the same
word. In general it means 'agaiti', or 'repeatedly'. In con¬
nection with verbs, it has the same meaning whether it is
employed as a prefix or as a suffix. The purer and better
Kurdish, however, generally use it as a suffix. In the follow¬
ing words it may be considered as inseparable:^ e_y_llJ
(listin-a-wa) or ^^^"3 (wa-listin) 'to lick'; "j-^^J (rish-
an-a-wa) or .jlijoj (wa-rishan) 'to vomit' (lit. 'to spill re¬
peatedly') ; e^iji (kirdin-a-wa) or J):>^ oj (wa-kirdin)
'to open' (lit. 'to do over again), etc. In the following words
it may be considered as separable: e^Jyj- (khir bûn-a-wa)
'to assemble'; o^JiJi A^i (qisa kirdin-a-wa) 'to speak';
oyj y 3% (blati bûn-a-wa) 'to be scattered', etc.
The Personal Endings
196. The Kurdish verb is inflected by adding certain suf¬
fixes or endings to the different tense stems. These are called
'personal endings', because they indicate what person is act¬
ing or acted upon. These are two forms of personal endings
employed. The first is called the 'enclitic form', and the sec¬
ond the 'suffix pronoun form'.
197. The following is the enclitic form of personal end¬
ings which is employed in all moods and tenses of the 'First
Conjugation', and in the present and future tenses of the
'Second Conjugation'.
Singular Plural
L Person: ^ (i)m, I
2. {_f i, thou
Ö: m, we
O (J)n, you