Grammar Overview: Behdînî Kurmanji

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Grammar Overview: Behdînî Kurmanji Şirîn American Kurdish Center Azad came to my house yesterday. He brought a gift. He came to my house yesterday. He brought this. Personal pronouns (such as “he”) and demonstrative pronouns (such as “this”) often take the place of nouns (such as “Azad”) in our sentences when we speak English. The same is true in Kurdish. Sometimes in Kurdish, you don’t even need to use a personal pronoun in the sentence! There are two “cases” in Kurmanji: “direct” and “oblique”. In this lesson we’ll study the “direct” case. In Lesson 2 we’ll study the “oblique” case. .....


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Table of Contents (alphabetical) Lessons and Exercises 1 Simple Past Tense of Intransitive Verbs / 1 2 Oblique Case Pronouns; Izafe; Imperatives / 11 3 Oblique Case Suffix, Past Tense of Transitive Verbs (Ergative Sentence Construction) / 19 4 Present Tense Sentences, Aspect Marker, Irregular Verb / 27 5 Irregular Present Tense Verbs, Compound and Idiomatic Verbs / 35 6 Indefinite Article Marker, Specific Reference Marker, Contractions, Future Tense Sentences / 43 7 Subjunctive I and Subjunctive II / 51 8 Participles I and II; Present Progressive, Pluperfect, Perfect Tenses - Aspects; Passive Construction / 63 9 Summary of all Verb Tenses - Aspect - Modes / 71 10 Interrogatives (Question Words) / 73