a-practical-kurdish-grammar

92 A PRACTICAL KURDISH GRAMMAR
Singular
ç^Ji (j-«! (amin da-tirsa-
(da) to the preterite par¬
ticiple, we have the 3rd person singular, imperfect tense.
224. The general characteristic of the imperfect tense of
all verbs is the employment of the present tense prefix i
(da) with the preterite stem, which combination indicates a
continuous past.
225. The 3rd person singular is the naked preterite parti¬
ciple prefixed by i (da), without any pronominal suffix or
personal ending.
2^6. The negative is formed by simply prefixing the neg¬
ative particle j or \j . Examples: c^L-JSi ^y^ (amin na-da-
tirsa-m) 'I was not fearing' ; (jL-JX y\ (atu na-da-tirsa-i)
'thou wast not fearing' ; L^jJ jl (aii na-da-tirsa-) 'he, she,
it was not fearing', etc.