Sorani grammar
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Sorani
SoraniSoranî
Soranî is the name of a Kurdish language that is spoken in Iran and Iraq. Soranî is one of the main Kurdish languages, which are a branch of the Iranian languages.- Name :...
Kurdish is written with the Arabic alphabet, it has 8 vowels:î[i], û[u], i[I], u[ʊ] , e[e], o[o], a[æ] ,â[ɑ].
Nouns
A Kurdish noun in the absolute state,i.e. without any ending of any kind, gives a generic sense of the noun. It is
also the “lexical” form of the noun, i.e. the form in which a noun is given in
a vocabulary list or dictionary. The absolute state is normally used for the
generic sense, as in قاوه رهشه qâwa rasha(coffee is black).
Tense
The main tenses- Min nan dexom (Present)
- I am eating the meal
- Min nanim xward (Past)
- I ate the meal
The Past Perfect Tense (Intransitive)
For intransitive verbs with past stems ending in a consonant (like hatin > hat-), the past perfect tense,which is functionally equivalent to the English past perfect (‘I had come,you had gone’), is formed from the past stem + i + the past tense of bûn ‘to be.’ Verbs with past stems ending in a vowel (like bûn > bû) form the past perfect tense from the simple stem + the past tense of bûn.- hâtibûm You Came for me
- hâtibûyan You came for them
- hâtibûy(t) You came for him/her