a-practical-kurdish-grammar

VERBS 83
201. In the Mongur dialect (i) is very often employed for
(e), in the 3rd person singular, present tense. Example: ^y,^
(dab-i) for (dab-e) 'it will be', or 'it must be'. And in other
dialects, especially that of Sinna, we meet with the suffix ^
(tin). Examples: ^^0 i (daka-tin) 'he does'; ^^lo (be-tin)
'he may be'. The ending o (t)> sometimes heard, is bor¬
rowed from the New Persian.
202. These endings are also used objectively in all tenses
of the Passive Voice, and in the preterite tense of transitive
verbs, of which we shall hear more fully later,. Two or three
examples will suffice here: ^JJy> ^ (dakiizhre-m) 'I am be¬
ing (or will be) killed'; o'^-^-^r (kuzhraw-in) 'we have
been killed'; /^7 S cXi> (hal-(i)t-girt-in) 'thou didst carry us'.
203. The following is the suffix pronoun form of personal
endings, which is employed in the past tenses of the 'Second
Conjugation' only.
Singular Plural
1. Person: ^ (i)m, I ;jlo man, we
2. C- (i)t, thou
3. (_j Î, he, she, it
(See 163 and 165.)
O^ tan, or j (u) you
ij\ yan, they
204. In the preterite and perfect tenses, if the verb is used
alone, the personal ending is joined to the verb itself. Ex¬
ample: ö\p (kuti-yan) 'they said' ; '^\3i_p (kirdû-yan-a)
'they have done'. But when another word is employed in
connection with the verb, either subjectively or objectively,
the pronominal stlffix or personal ending is usually joined to