a-practical-kurdish-grammar

VERBS 91
Interrogatively, the future indicative is expressed by the
present subjunctive, either by employing an interrogative tone
of voice, or by employing an interrogative pronoun, adverb,
or particle. Examples : (With interrogative tone of voice) :
ff^yi (bi-tirs-(i)m) 'shall I fear?'; o^fyi (bi-tirs-în)
'shall we fear?' (With interrogative pronoun): ij^yi ^y
(kie bi-tirs-e) 'who will fear?' *-»^ ^ a] (la chî bi-tirs-
(i)m) 'what shall I fear?' (With interrogative adverbs):
t^yi 3i (bo bi-tirs-(i)m) or çr-'y ij^i'. (bö chî bi-tirs-
(i)m) 'why shall I fear?' ^ (J>^ (kange bi-tirs-(i)m)
'when shall I fear?' (With interrogative particle) : ^y. Sy
(are bi-tirs-(i)m) or ^y y^ (magar bi-tirs-(i)m) 'shall I
fear?'; 4J (jl ^y (bi-tirs-(i)m yan na) or a> j\j (t-xy SJ^
(are bi-tirs-(i)m yan na)' shall I fear or no?'.
Note. The separate personal pronouns are usually omitted except for
emphasis.
222. Prof. Bresin (p. 151) and Ferdinand Justi (p. 176)
attempt to form a distinct future tense by employing, as
auxiliary, the 3rd person singular of the future tense of the
verb 'to be', which \S(ji^(dah&) 'he, she, it will be'; but em¬
ployed as an auxiliary, in this way, (J^^ (dabe) does not
particularly indicate futurity, but 'necessity', as M. Augnste
Jaba correctly states in the sentence: 'insan hemû di be-
mjrin' (all men must die). In more complete forms the
same sentence would read thus; Oyi {J> y^ jLîl
(insan hamii dabe bi-mrin).